wife, of Friedrich von Schlegel), Recha and Henriette, all gifted women. Recha's only grandson (son of Heinrich Beer, brother of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer), was born and educated as a Jew, but died very young, together with his parents, apparently from an epidemic. Joseph Mendelssohn's son Alexander (d. 1871) was the last male descendant of Moses Mendelssohn to practice Judaism. See also Biurists Fridolin Friedmann Sara Grotthuis Heinrich Josefsohn Notes References Citations Sources Altmann, Alexander. Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study, 1973. . Bloch, Marcus, Medicinische Bemerkungen. Nebst einer Abhandlung vom Pyrmonter-Augenbrunnen. Berlin 1774 Brand, Aron, The Illness of Moses Mendelssohn, "Koroth" 6, 421-426, 1974 Dahlstrom, Daniel, Moses Mendelssohn, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) Kayserling, Meyer Moses Mendelssohn, sein Leben und seine Werke. Nebst einem Anhange ungedruckter Briefe. Leipzig, 1862. Lavater, J. K., Sammlung derer Briefe, welche bey Gelegenheit der Bonnetschen philosophischen Untersuchung der Beweise für das Christenthum zwischen Hrn. Lavater, Moses Mendelssohn, und Hrn Dr. Kölbele gewechselt worden [Collection of those letters which have passed between Mr. Lavater, Moses Mendelssohn, and Mr. Dr. Kölbele on occasion of Bonnet's investigation concerning the evidence of Christianity], Frankfurt am Main 1774 (Google Books). Mendelssohn, Moses, tr. A. Arkush, intr. A. Altmann: Jerusalem, or, on religious power and Judaism, 1983. . Mendelssohn, Moses, tr., intr., comm. B. Rosenstock: Last Works, 2012. Includes Morning Hours: Lectures on the Existence of God (Morgenstunden, 1785) and To the Friends of Lessing (An die Freunde Lessings, 1786). . Momigliano, Arnaldo, On Pagans, Jews, and Christians, Weslyan University Press, 1987 Schoeps, Julius H. Das Erbe der Mendelssohhns, Frankfurt 2009. Tree, Stephen. Moses Mendelssohn. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek, 2007. . Attribution External links Works by and about Moses Mendelssohn in University Library JCS Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica Moses Mendelssohn's books at Google Books Translation of Moses Mendelssohn's Sache Gottes, The Case for God, a work unpublished in his lifetime dealing with questions related to theodicy, including Mendelssohn's denial of the doctrine of eternal punishment Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry Ohr Le-Netivah (introduction to the 'Biur') on HebrewBooks.org Contains Mendelssohn's Jerusalem, slightly modified for easier reading Moses Mendelssohn In Our Time (BBC Radio 4) stream (original broadcast 22 March 2012) discussion with Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge), Abigail Green (University of Oxford), Adam Sutcliffe (King's College London), hosted by Melvyn Bragg, and including a list of further readings. Video Lecture on Moses Mendelssohn