MENDELSOHN, FRANKFURT MOSES
- MENDELSOHN, FRANKFURT MOSES
- MENDELSOHN, FRANKFURT MOSES (Moses ben Mendel
Frankfurt; 1782–1861), Hebrew scholar and writer. Born in Hamburg,
he received a traditional education but, under the influence of N.H.
Wessely\>\> , became attracted to Haskalah. He engaged mainly in
literary work, writing in both German and in Hebrew. His main work is
Penei Tevel (published posthumously in Amsterdam in 1872), a
collection of poetry and prose in the style of the maqāmāt of
Al-Ḥarizi\>\> . The book contains satire, polemics, epic poems on
biblical themes, and a history of the Hebrew Haskalah movement at the
turn of the 18th century. He was an uncle of S.R.
Hirsch\>\> .
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
E. Duckesz, Ḥakhmei Ahav (1908), 120–1; G. Kressel,
Ivrit ba-Ma'arav (1941), 36–41; Ḥ.N. Shapira, Toledot
ha-Sifrut ha-Ivrit ha-Ḥadashah (19672), 503–10.
(Getzel Kressel)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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