>The Revolution was a climactic period for French Jews: it marked the beginning of their political emancipation.
>...
>The condition and the reformation of European Jewry often found itself at the heart of discussions during the Enlightenment, and at the heart of these discussions, often as not, was the figure of Moses Mendelssohn. **A central figure in the German Enlightenment, French revolutionaries considered Mendelssohn’s life a topic of significant importance** —important enough to warrant a 1787 biography, On Moses Mendelssohn and the Political Reform of the Jews, authored by Mirabeau
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Mendelssohn
>Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729[note 1] – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
>Philosophers and scientists of the period widely circulated their ideas through meetings at scientific academies, **Masonic lodges**, literary salons, coffeehouses and in printed books, journals,[7] and pamphlets. The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the Catholic Church and **paved the way for the political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries**. A variety of 19th-century movements, including liberalism, socialism[8] and neoclassicism, trace their intellectual heritage to the Enlightenment.[9]
https://k-larevue.com/en/jews-and-the-french-revolution/
>The Revolution was a climactic period for French Jews: it marked the beginning of their political emancipation.
>...
>The condition and the reformation of European Jewry often found itself at the heart of discussions during the Enlightenment, and at the heart of these discussions, often as not, was the figure of Moses Mendelssohn. **A central figure in the German Enlightenment, French revolutionaries considered Mendelssohn’s life a topic of significant importance** —important enough to warrant a 1787 biography, On Moses Mendelssohn and the Political Reform of the Jews, authored by Mirabeau
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Mendelssohn
>Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729[note 1] – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
>Philosophers and scientists of the period widely circulated their ideas through meetings at scientific academies, **Masonic lodges**, literary salons, coffeehouses and in printed books, journals,[7] and pamphlets. The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the Catholic Church and **paved the way for the political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries**. A variety of 19th-century movements, including liberalism, socialism[8] and neoclassicism, trace their intellectual heritage to the Enlightenment.[9]