Description: Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment. One of Mendelssohn's main concerns was how ...

Moses Mendelssohn, his grandfather, was a hunchbacked peddler who came to be one of Germany ... He built up a powerful Hamburg bank and became a man of considerable wealth, while his wife provided the ...