Moses Mendelssohn Father Of The Jewish Enlightenment

Moses Mendelssohn was born in 1729 and passed away in 1786. Mendelssohn was born in Dessau, Germany. At the age of fourteen he followed his teacher to Berlin. Mendelssohn was an extremely important and appreciated man in the Jewish religion; this is as he is considered the Father of the Jewish Enlightenment. He was able to change the ways in which the Jewish people lived and broke down the boundaries of the ghettos walls. Moving to Berlin he held an employment as an educator to the children of a silk manufacture. He was able to get the status of a privileged Jew; this status was mostly for the merchants and financiers or physicians or treated non-Jewish people. Mendelssohn accomplished many ideas during his life he was able to introduce the