Tis muc-celebte ( iel epouce) pit-ig iclues m itetextul efeeces to Gem Jeis lite, visul mteil cultues, ici tis exibitio e illustte toug te books,muscipts objects fom te combieMges Bcoft collectios.Te spe of Meelsso’s pofile m ve beeispie b te silouette iclue i Lvte’s
Physiognomische Fragmente
(1775–1778). Te cessbo t te cete is likel visul quottio of Lessig’s m,
Nathan der Weise
(1779), i ic temi ccte, o is egge i gme of cess,s moele fte Meelsso. Te cess bo islso “visul pu”: e (o Lvte’s sie) s beeput i ceckmte b ite, i efeece to te itellec-tul supeioit ttibute to te ssocitio beteeMeelsso Lessig ove Lvte’s stce. Teope book el b Lvte bes te title, “Boet,” iefeece to Lvte’s Gem tsltio of ClesBoet’s
La palingénésie philosophique
(1769), icte teologi use to obti fom Meelsso epl coceig te “essece of Cistiit.”Te bss lmp gig fom te ceilig combies celie (o te top sectio) it itul oil lmpfo te Sbbt festivls (o te loe sectio).Te oo fme bove te om eteig te oom
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
(Gem, 1800–1882)
Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn
Gem, 1856, Oil o cvsGift of Veo Stou, Ev Like, Ge Mt, Ilse Feige Ii Stus i memo of Feeick Eit Stus
75.18, ThE MaGnES COLLECTIOn OF JEwISh arT and LIFE, ThE BanCrOFT LIBrary
is iscibe it te hebe blessig:
barukh atahbe-voekha u-varukh atah be-tzetekha
, o “Blesseslt tou be e tou comest i, blesse slttou be e tou goest out,” (
Deuteronomy
28:6).Tis biblicl quottio likel efes to te fiesipbetee Meelsso Lessig, s ell s (i te ioic tu) to te tsiece of te coflict-ul eltiosip betee Meelsso Lvte(ose t lkig stick ppe o te loeigt of te pitig). O te bck ll t te left ofte scee gs fme
mizrach
(te hebe ofo “Est” is fitl legible), ll-gig iictigte iectio beig fce uig pe ccoig tote Jeis itul.Te ll gig, log it te Sbbt lmpgigfom te ceilig, te hebe isciptio o te oofme, te e-coveig coisticll plceove Meelsso’s e (o cotempo icoo-gpic souce epicts Meelssoeig fom of e-coveig), possibl te tllutitlevolumes, emiiscet of Tlmuic tcttes, o teselves i te bckgou, c be see s ttemptso te pt of te pite to itepetMeelsso’sttcmet to Juism toug te leses of tecos of Jeis obsevce ttomite temi-19t cetu, e te pitig s me.