JUDAIC 386 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Felix Mendelssohn, Orthodox Judaism, Antisemitism
22 Sep 2016
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Antisemitism: felix mendelssohn 1809-1847, a mid-summer night"s dream (wedding march, mose mendelssohn was felix"s grandfather. b. i. He was an orthodox jew and considered the father of the jewish b. iii. enlightenment. Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation b. iv. Napoleon created the emancipation that came as a deal which was explicit because the jews got the restrictions taken off but they had to change their way of life like: b. iv. 1. b. iv. 2. They were allowed to be jewish but they had to act like frenchmen in public. This created a clash because they follow jewish laws inside and outside the home. b. iv. 3. b. iv. 4. They are allowed to marry outside the jewish culture. Giving up their separateness means that they would have to give up their own laws and beliefs. b. iv. 5. b. iv. 6. b. iv. 7. They had to adopt a german or french last name. They had to learn the languages around them.
