| LC control no. | n 88116716 |
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| Personal name heading | Ascher, Saul, 1767-1822 |
| Variant(s) | Theodiscus, 1767-1822 אשר, שאול, 1767־1822 |
| Birth date | 1767-02-06 |
| Death date | 1822-12-08 |
| Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
| Place of death | Berlin (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Jews--Emancipation--Europe Antisemitism Booksellers and bookselling Jewish philosophy |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Translators Jewish booksellers Philosophers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Ideen zur natürlichen Geschichte der Revolutionen, 1975: t.p. (Saul Ascher) Aron, Jacques. Saul Ascher, 2017: title page (Saul Ascher) page 4 of cover (1767-1822; Jewish German philosopher) Meyers Enzyk. Lexikon, 1971-1985: v. 2, p. 683 (Ascher, Saul; pseud. Theodiscus; b. 02/06/1767 in Landsberg (Warthe); d. 12/08/1822 in Berlin) Wikipedia, viewed April 18, 2018 Saul Ascher (German writer, translator and bookseller; born in Berlin; attended high school in Landsberg an der Warthe; concerned with the issues of Jewish emancipation during the era of the French Revolution and Napoleon. He stated that the Jews were in a downtrodden position, not because of any innate characteristics, but because of persecution and discrimination and he fought antisemitism in his various writings.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Ascher> Encyclopaedia Judaica online, 2007, viewed April 19, 2018: (Ascher, Saul; German author, philosopher, and pioneer of religious reform. Ascher was born in Berlin and was heavily influenced by the Kantian philosophy. His first work, Bemerkungen ueber die buergerliche verbesserung der Juden, veranlasst durch die Frage: Soll der Jude Soldat werden (1788), included a call to the Jews to relinquish their way of life and prejudices in order to obtain civic emancipation. Nevertheless he rejected military service as long as the Jews did not enjoy full emancipation and equality. In 1794 he published a polemical tract against the antisemitic opinions of Fichte. In his main work, Leviathan, oder: ueber Religion in Ruecksicht des Judentums (1792), in contradiction to Moses Mendelssohn, Ascher considered religion a primary expression of human sentiment that leads to a specific world view and ideals. Judaism's uniqueness lies not in the practical commandments but in this specific world view, which he summed up in 14 dogmas basically corresponding to the 13 Articles of Faith of Maimonides. According to Ascher, the object of Jewish religious law is to stimulate the discernment of its philosophical kernel and should be reformed whenever necessitated by the social and spiritual conditions of the Jews.) <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CCX2587501421&docType=Brief+biography&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GVRL&contentSet=GALE%7CCX2587501421&searchId=R1&userGroupName=nysl_me_yeshival&inPS=true> |
| Associated language | ger |
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