FRIEDLÄNDER, DAVID. Reden der Erbauung gebildeter Israeliten gewidmet ["Edifying Speeches Dedicated to Educated Jews"]. * WITH: FRIEDLÄNDER, DAVID. Reden der Erbauung...First sequel

(GERMANY)

Berlin

1815 and1817

FIRST EDITION. Together two volumes

Freimann, p. 431

The first volume by Friedländer is devoted to the topic of Trade and Wealth (Handel und Reichthum); its sequel to the topic of Religion and Reason (Religion und Vernunft). Both are geared to a young audience. A major figure in the early Haskalah movement founded by Moses Mendelssohn, David Friedländer (1750-1834) devoted his energies to the enlightenment of Jewish youth. In 1778, Friedländer, together with his wealthy brother-in-law Isaac Daniel Itzig (1750-1806) founded the Freischule (Jewish Free School) in Berlin in 1778, where he developed its curriculum. The two books present, may be viewed as part of Friedländer's abiding concern for educating Jewish youth in an attempt to mainstream them into general German society. See S. Feiner, The Jewish Enlightenment (2002) pp. 108-11; JE, Vol. V, pp. 514-15; EJ, Vol. VII, cols. 177-79