Bidspirit auction | MENDELSSOHN, MOSES. Jerusalem. Oder über

MENDELSSOHN, MOSES. Jerusalem. Oder über religiöse Macht und Judenthum. First Edition. Complete in two parts. pp. (2), 96, 141. Lightly foxed. Later marbled boards, rebacked. 8vo. Berlin, Friedrich Maurer, 1783.     In his ”Jerusalem, ” Mendelssohn’s most important work, the author argued that with the destruction of the Jewish Commonwealth and the cessation of the Sanhedrin, Judaism was rendered a religion with no coercive powers. - Nonetheless, Jews are still bound by the Covenant to observe Mosaic Law.