09/10/2024
Shaping the Jewish Enlightenment
13 November 2024, 7 pm, Foyle Suite, British Library, Euston Road
Solomon Dubno, best known as contributor to Moses Mendelssohn’s German translation of and commentary on the Hebrew Pentateuch, represents the Jewish Enlightenment in an east European key: Born in today’s Belarus, Dubno excelled as a grammarian and author and advocated Hebrew literacy and a rejuvenation of Hebrew belleslettres for the educated Jewish reading public. In contrast to Mendelssohn, the rapprochement between Jews and non-Jews was of less relevance.