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JEWISH LITERATURE
extensive. Jewish literature begins with Mendelssohn to have an independent life of its own, a life of the spirit, which cannot be altogether controlled by the tribulations of material life. A physical Ghetto may once more be imposed on the Jews from without; an intellectual Ghetto imposed from within is hardly conceivable. Tolerance gave the modern spirit to Jewish literature, but intolerance cannot withdraw it.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Moses Mendelssohn.
- Graetz.—V, 8.
- Karpeles—Sketch of Jewish History, p. 93; Jewish Literature and other Essays, p. 293.
- English translations of Phedo, Jerusalem, and of the Introduction to the Pentateuch (Hebrew Review. Vol. 1).
- Other translations of Jerusalem were made by M. Samuels (London, 1838) and by Isaac Leeser, the latter published as a supplement to the Occident, Philadelphia, 5612.
The Mendelssohnian Movement.
- Graetz.—V, 10.
