1/21 | Birthday of Moses Hess
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 21 200th Birthday of Moses Hess, Radical Thinker Two hundred years ago today Moses Hess was born in Bonn, (his given name was Moïses as Bonn was then part of the First French Empire), at Judengasse 807. He had a traditional Jewish education, but learned French and German as well. After leaving the University of Bonn, Hess moved to Cologne and founded what was perhaps the first socialist journal. His ideas on collectives and community as well as on Jewish life would later be developed by his colleagues Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels into Communism....
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