{"product_id":"the-fortunes-of-the-mendelssohns-history-of-a-german-family-hardcover","title":"The Fortunes of the Mendelssohns: History of a German Family - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Lackmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBarbara Thiem\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJane K. Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis richly illustrated family history describes for the first time the world of the Mendelssohns over five generations from the eighteenth century to 1938. Author Thomas Lackmann knowledgeably tells the fate of this large German family caught between tradition and innovation, power and morality, talent and luck. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story begins with the beggar student Mausche, a 14-year-old Talmud scholar-in-training from Dessau who came to Berlin as an educational migrant. Under the name Moses Mendelssohn (d. 1786), one he invented for himself, he established himself as a successful silk merchant and achieved European fame during his lifetime as a Jewish Enlightenment philosopher. Over two and a half centuries, his family tree branched out into a bourgeois dynasty of merchants, artists, and scholars. Whether his favorite daughter Brendel (who would later become the Romantic author Dorothea Schlegel), his musically gifted grandchildren Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy, or Franz von Mendelssohn, the prominent economic leader of the Weimar Republic, the Mendelssohns have shaped German culture more extensively and over a longer period of time than any other middle-class family. At the center of this family chronicle is a restless traveler and searcher of his identity: Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the son of the philosopher Moses and father of the composer Felix. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn thirty-six lively portraits, Lackmann offers a microcosm of German-Jewish history--showing how the Mendelssohns influenced the self-image and assimilation of German Jews but also impacted the majority Christian society through their contributions as writers, intellectuals, scientists, musicians, painters, bankers, and entrepreneurs.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas Lackmann\u003c\/strong\u003e is the current director and exhibition curator of the Mendelssohn Remise in Berlin and has been a board member of the Mendelssohn Society since 2011. He is also a descendent of Moses Mendelssohn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Thiem\u003c\/strong\u003e is a performing cellist and college teacher. She has translated other works of Mendelssohn history, specifically \u003cem\u003eFrom New York to San Francisco\u003c\/em\u003e by Ernst Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. She is also a descendant of Moses Mendelssohn, in the branch of the banker Franz von Mendelssohn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJane K. Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e, former president of the Goethe Society of North America, has written and edited numerous books on Goethe, European drama and other topics, as well as translations. Her translation of Harald Weinrich's \u003cem\u003eTempus\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the Sgalione Translation Prize from the Modern Language Association of America.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 424\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.23 x 9.28 x 6.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45531360133255,"sku":"9780197797044","price":85.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/GXUE6i5k0q9780197797044.webp?v=1786646760","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-fortunes-of-the-mendelssohns-history-of-a-german-family-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}