Talk:Moses Mendelssohn

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from the bottom of the 4th Paragraph from the end:

"Mendelssohn's own descendants--a brilliant circle, of which the musician Felix was the most jaoted--left the Synagogue for the Church"

I suspect that "jaoted" is OCR for "jaded" but am not sure.

 "gifted" seems to fit better, but jaoted more interesting

"He was the foremost Jewish figure of the 18th century"

  says who?

I removed 'although' from, 'he won the prize…, although among the competitors were Thomas Abbt and Immanuel Kant,' because it implied that one of them should have won instead. RoseWill 02:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Remove from Reform cat.

He wasn't a reform Jew. Nor did he ever support many of the ideas of reform Jew. I suggest removing him for that cat. Anyone disagree? 210.84.40.154 21:29, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

True for Mendelssohn, but not for his disciples, like Isaac Euchel or David Friedländer. He became, whether he would have approved of this or not, an important figure in the development of Reform Judaism. (Fuxmann 06:09, 27 July 2007 (UTC))

You could use the same argument that Mendalssohn was an important figure for Torah uMada and therefore should also be added to that cat. Maybe it is just best to add him to the Orthodox Judaism cat. 203.217.41.188 11:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Philosophy rating

Moved from 'low' to 'mid', as the former is oriented to technical issues remote from the layman. whereas the latter deasl with general issues at a low technical level--Smerus 06:09, 12 August 2007 (UTC)