Publisher's Synopsis
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the premier Jewish thinker of his day. He was at the same time a legitimate successor to the great medieval Jewish thinkers and one of the best-known figures of the German Enlightenment, earning the sobriquet "the Socrates of Berlin".
Mendelssohn has been treated as a symbol of the modern Jewish predicament: the conflict between Jewish tradition and secular culture.
