
HoP 170 - Gad Freudenthal on Jewish Philosophy and Science
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Jewish Tendency to Write in Hebrew
The Jewish tendency is to write in Hebrew characters. So you have Jews living in Muslim dominated lands who can read Arabic and write in Arabic and speak Arabic but you don't have too many Jews in Christendom who read and write in Latin, that's the point. Yes, I think you mentioned to me yesterday that they wrote German and Hebrew characters up until what the 18th century is. There is a switch in the Jewish community from writing in Hebrew characters to writing in Latin or German characters. Mendelssohn was really one of the first Jews to write through it, perfect German.
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