Author
Raphael; Marc Lee
Year
2020
Publisher
Brown Judaic Studies
Language
English
Pages
13
ISBN
978-1-94652-793-6
Last Update
06-Jan-2025
Keywords
Religion ; Jewish Studies
In the early 1760s, Moses Mendelssohn wrote to his fiancée, Fromet Guggenheim: "Your amourousness requires me in these letters to transcend all conventional ceremonies. For, just as we needed no marriage brokers for our (engagement), so we need no ceremonies for our correspondence … The heart will answer these instead." And in another place: "Even the kisses that I stole from your lips were mixed with some bitterness, for the approaching separation made me heavy of heart and incapable of enjoying a pure pleasure."¹ In his classic article from 1945, Jacob Katz argued that with these letters, Mendelssohn marked the...
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