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    Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (German: Jerusalem oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum) is a book written by Moses Mendelssohn, which was...
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    Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion...
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  • William Blake Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion, an illuminated book created from 1804 to 1820 by William Blake Jerusalem (Mendelssohn), philosophical...
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    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist...
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    possibly Hellenised diaspora Jews converted to Christianity, in the area of Jerusalem, prior to his conversion. Some time after having approved of the execution...
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    "Mendelssohn: Letters and Recollections." London: Macmillan and Co. OCLC 251459153 Petzolt, Martin (2012). The Oratorio "The Destruction of Jerusalem"...
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    Psalms (redirect from Book of Psalms)
    from Book 1. Robertson suggests Book 2 may have Northern Kingdom origins. Book 3: Devastation - Marked by the overtaking of Jerusalem, this book holds...
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  • Akademieausgabe (Academy Edition) of a work on Moses Mendelssohn's collected writings (Moses Mendelssohn: Gesammelte Schriften). After Hitler's rise in Germany...
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    War. Two composers used the beginning for symphonic compositions, Mendelssohn's Lobgesang and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. The following table shows...
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    meine Zuversicht" ("Gott ist mein Hirt", 1820) (German text by Moses Mendelssohn) Charles Villiers Stanford: "The Lord is my shepherd" (1886) Randall...
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    including Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Jerusalem. Although Blake has become better known for his...
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    German book, an edition of Protestant theology, at a well-organized system of Jewish charity for needy Talmud students. Mendelssohn read this book and found...
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    represents an early version of her concept of history. The book is dedicated to Anne Mendelssohn, who first drew her attention to Varnhagen. Arendt's relation...
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  • under Cyrus the Great (538 BCE), many of the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem, building the Second Temple. In 332 BCE the kingdom of Macedonia under...
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    Elijah (category Book of Malachi people)
    Perhaps the best-known representation of the story of Elijah is Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah". The oratorio chronicles many episodes of Elijah's...
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    his first composition. In 1822, the 13-year-old Felix Mendelssohn entered his life. The Mendelssohn family was at that time staying briefly in Frankfurt...
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    commentary for Mendelssohn's translation of the book of Genesis. This was published in the first volume of Mendelssohn translation of the Pentateuch. In 1782–3...
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    performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Bach’s Thomaskirche. In 2011, he stepped down from that post and became the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra's...
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    Protestant liturgies. It has been set to music in several languages. Felix Mendelssohn used it for Hebe deine Augen auf, a trio of his 1846 oratorio Elijah...
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    Great, an Achaemenid emperor, as a messiah for his decree to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple. In Jewish eschatology, the Messiah is a future Jewish king from...
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  • progressive ideas, in opposition to more conservative composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. Note that this list is purely chronological, and...
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    History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rashi by Maurice Liber Discusses Rashi's influence on Moses Mendelssohn and the Haskalah. Jewish Virtual Library...
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    connection with Moses Mendelssohn and entered the circles of the Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment movement) in Berlin. Mendelssohn introduced him to some...
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    Seven Laws of Noah (category Book of Jubilees)
    Moses Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen, also have formulated more inclusive and universal interpretations of the Seven Laws of Noah. Moses Mendelssohn, one...
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  • of the same name. Adler, Franco and Mendelssohn claim that the destruction of Safed took place in 1660, Mendelssohn writing that the Jews of Safed "had...
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  • Orientalisches Marsch-Intermezzo, and the opening of the third movement of Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony. The melody was later used by composer Frank Ticheli...
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  • Hai · Tel Lachish · Temple in Jerusalem · Temple Mount · Ten Commandments · Tenth of Tevet · Tevet · Tevye · The Black Book of Soviet Jewry · Theodor Herzl ·...
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    Gershom Scholem (category Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
    appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Scholem is acknowledged as the single most significant figure in the...
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    Cave of the Patriarchs (category Book of Genesis)
    supported by Samuel b. Meir, Moses b. Nachman, Obadiah Sforno, Moses Mendelssohn, Ernst Rosenmüller, and Samuel David Luzzatto, holds that makhpela isn't...
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  • literal son of God. The Jerusalem Talmud states explicitly: "if a man claims to be God, he is a liar." Paul Johnson, in his book A History of the Jews,...
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