Moses Mendelssohn: The First English Biography and Translations. In Three Volumes. Volume 1: Memoirs of Moses Mendelssohn. Volumes 2: Writings Related to Mendelssohn's Jerusalem. Volume 3: Mendelssohn's 'Jerusalem.'.

Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 2002. Hardbound. Octavos, oragne cloth with gold lettering, xxii, viii, 171 pp. + iv, x, 330 pp., A Catalogue of the Works of Manasseh ben Israel, errata + ii, 371 pp. Very Good. Item #51216
ISBN: 1855069849

Introduction by James Schmidt. Volume 1 reprints "Memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn [sic]," by M. Samuels [sic], 2nd Edition, (London, Longman and Co., 1827). Volume 2 reprints, following a preface by M. Samuel, "Vindiciae Judicorum," by Rabbi Manasseh Ben Israel, a Preface to the German Translation of "Vincdiciae Judicorum," by Moses Mendelssohn, "Search for Light and Right, an Epistle to Moses Mendelssohn, occasioned by his remarkable preface to Rabbi Manesseh Ben Israel's Vindication of the Jews," by [S. Moershcel? Lavater?], A Letter by Mendelssohn, written during his Controversy with Lavater, in 1770, Moses Mendelssohn's Reply to Charles Bonnet, Translator's notes, Remarks on Mendelssohn, &c, by J.M. Jost. Volume 3: Mendelssohn's "Jerusalem," "Jerusalem: A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism," with translators nots. Volume 2 and 3 are Reprinted from "Jerusalem: A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism," translated from the German by M. Samuels [sic] 2 volumes in 1 (London, Longman, Orme, Brown and Longmans, 1838).

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