Jean Nordhaus
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Poetry
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Jean Nordhaus
Under Frederick the Great, every Jew who married was required to buy otherwise unsalable china from the royal porcelain factory. Moses Mendelssohn, a world-famous philosopher in the eighteenth century, was forced to buy twenty life-size porcelain apes. These poems take the reader on a journey through Mendelssohn’s life.
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