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With Prof. Yitzhak Melamed discussing Solomon Maimon (1753 - 1800) and the new edition of his autobiography

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Solomon Meinman's Autobiography

Around 1719 there is a new star coming into intellectual life in Germany. Solomon Meinman who came from the east, everyone thinks that he's he's say-bad,. He's Germany's horrible but Kant says that he is the best philosopher or sharpest person criticizing his word. What we know is that in this basically in six, seven years of his life he would usually write a book in a month and then spend the other 11 months of the year just going from tavern to tavern drinking. And when does he die, it's the end, 1800, 1800, so he is supported by the German Jewish bourgeoisie of the Askala until 1795 - they don't know what to

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