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Moses Hirschel and Enlightenment Breslau
David Heywood Jones
Moses Hirschel and Enlightenment Breslau A City and its Jews in the Late Eighteenth Century
David Heywood Jones Independent Scholar Berlin, Germany
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Acknowledgements
This book simply would not have existed if it were not for a chance meeting many years ago with the philosopher, teacher and Haskalah veteran Christoph Schulte. Professor Schulte may have furnished the intellectual inspiration for my dissertation, but it was a generous three-year fellowship at the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (ELES), foundation which provided me with the financial means to write about Moses Hirschel and Breslau. At ELES, Prof. Eva Lezzi, Prof. Walter Homolka and Prof. Anja Paschedag lent vital inspiration, input and support when needed. Special thanks to my second reader Prof. Daniel Krochmalnik, his work on Early Burial was an important source for my research. I would also like to express my gratitude to my colleagues and Prof. Sina Rauschenbach at our wonderful weekly colloquia at the University of Potsdam over the years. In particular, Julian Holter and Dr Michal Szulc presented important reality checks when the ghosts of Chanukah past threatened to swallow my research whole. My research trips to Wrocław would have been short and brutal were it not for the support from a number of institutions and academics. Andreas Reinke’s painstaking archival wo
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