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Dessauדסאו

Anhalt (Germany)

Dessau, a town in Anhalt in eastern Germany, is best known in Jewish history as the birthplace, in 1729, of Moses Mendelssohn, the philosopher and central figure of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah). The mishnaic commentator Rabbi Yisrael Lipschütz (author of the Tiferet Yisrael) also served in the region.

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Teachers who lived here