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The Letter of Consolation
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The peace of the Almighty God be with you and with all those who in their faith hope for and desire His grace and mercy. Dear and good friends and brethren of Israel. In your letter, you complain…

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Josel of Rosheim

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Alsace, France)

Date:

1539

Subjects:

Polemics, Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Christianity, Letters, Theology

Categories:

Theology, Letters
Letter to the Friends of Lessing (On the Spinoza Conversations between Lessing and Jacobi)
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Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…

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Moses Mendelssohn

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1786

Subjects:

Philosophy, Polemics, Scholarship, Theology, Enlightenment, Letters, Science & philosophy

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Metaphysics, Science & philosophy
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Rabbinic Reports on Circumcision
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Altona, 24 Ab 5603 Chief Rabbi! Messrs. Adler and Fuld, members of your congregation, asked for my opinion, from the Jewish-religious perspective…

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Jacob Ettlinger

Places:

Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1844

Subjects:

Talmud, Halakhah, Circumcision, Theology, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Theology