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7/6/2025, 7:05:02 AM
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With success, (((Moses Mendelssohn))) endeavored to lead his fellow tribesmen out of the intellectual ghetto, to convey to them the treasures of German culture, and to guide them to use the educated German language instead of the Jewish German patois. Through his own example, he showed them the way to (((literary activity and to influencing public opinion))). His efforts were aided by the humanitarian spirit of the Enlightenment. Competing with each other, the French and Germans strove to be "modern," and they created images of model Jews who had never lived anywhere at any time: numerous writers presented themselves as advocates for Jews in order to appear "unprejudiced." The Jewish professor Graetz writes: "It was a very important moment in the history of the Jews when the two young men, Mendelssohn and Lessing, became acquainted with each other." Indeed, it was very important! We particularly think of Lessing's poem "Nathan the Wise." Generally, the main character is seen as his friend Moses Mendelssohn. Famous is the story from the time of the Crusades about the three rings, which Lessing adapted for his didactic poem. According to his portrayal, a time will come when the three rings, that is, the three external forms of religion (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), will lose their significance to make way for the true religion that requires no external forms.

We regret that in this poetry, the ideal figure of the Reform Jew is portrayed with more or less serious character flaws, not only in the representatives of Islam but also in those of Christianity. Above all, however, Enlightenment ideas, especially the thought of a natural and rational religion (of "Deism"), are placed in the service of Judaism; Deism and Judaism appear to be closely intertwined, and to this day, Jews present themselves as the main bearers of the "Enlightenment"; everything that does not suit them is labeled as "backward."