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The porcelain apes of Moses Mendelssohn

The porcelain apes of Moses Mendelssohn

Poetry

Jean Nordhaus

Authors: Jean Nordhaus
Print type: BOOK

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"Under Frederick the Great, every Jew who married was required to buy otherwise unsalable china from the royal porcelain factory. Moses Mendelssohn, a man remembered today as "the Jewish Socrates" - and the grandfather of composers Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn - was forced, when he married, to buy twenty life-size porcelain apes."--BOOK JACKET.