217. For Maimon's system of philosophy
and also for a complete bibliography of his writings, see Kunz, Die
Philosophic Salomon Maimons, Heidelberg, 1912, pp. xxv, 531.]
[Footnote 26: Wolff, Maimoniana, Berlin, 1813, p. 177.]
[Footnote 27: How touching and suggestive is the word [Hebrew: Shbi]] in
an acrostic at the end of his Introduction to his Gibe'at ha-Moreh, a
commentary on the Moreh Nebukim:
'hobi ykr kor'
'bi vshm shmi hd'
Shbi bmlt bhtboknn]
[Footnote 28: See Murray's Introduction to the Autobiography; Auerbach,
Dichter und Kaufmann; Zangwill, Nathan the Wise and Solomon the Fool.]
[Footnote 29: FKI, p. 196.]
[Footnote 30: Maggid, Toledot Mishpehot Ginzberg, pp. 52-53; Emden,
Sheelat Ya'abez, Altona, 1739, p. 65 a.]
[Footnote 31: FKN, pp. 109-114, 269; FKI, p. 300.]
[Footnote 32: FKI, p. 394; Delitzsch, op. cit, p. 84.]
[Footnote 33: L'univers Israelite, liii. 831-841: "C'est, vous le voyez,
un juif polonais qui contribua puissamment a l'emancipation des juifs de
France. Et je me demande si le Judaisme du monde entier ne doit pas
rendre hommage a notre coreligionnaire polonais autant peut-etre qu' a
Menasse ben Israel." FKI, p. 333; Ha-Meliz, ii. no. 50; Shulammit, iii.
425; Graetz, op. cit. (Engl. transl.), v. 443.]
[Footnote 34: See Berliner, Festschrift, 1903, pp. 1-4.]
[Footnote 35: See Ha-Meliz, viii. nos. 11, 22, 23; FSL, p. 139;
Monatsschrift, xxiv, 348-357.]
[Footnote 36: Delitzsch, op. cit., pp. 115-118; Ha-Zeman (monthly), ii.
23 f.]
[Footnote 37: See Meassef, 1788, p. 32, and Levin's ed. of Moreh
Nebukim, Zolkiev, 1829, Introduction.]
[Footnote 38: Ha-Meassef, 1809, pp. 68-75, 136-171.]
[Footnote 39: See Sefer ha-Berit, Introduction, and Weissberg,
Aufklaerungsliteratur, Vienna, 1898, p. 83.]
[Footnote 40: FKI, p. 428.]
[Footnote 41: See Emden, Torat ha-Kenaot, pp. 123-127, and Hitabkut
(Pinczov's letters); Voskhod, 1882, nos. viii-ix; FSL, pp. 136-137;
Friedrichsfeld, Zeker Zaddik, p. 12.]
[Footnote 42: Maimon, Autobiography, pp. 106-107; FSL, p. 135.]
[Footnote 43: See LTI, ii. 96, n. 1, and Yellin and Abrahams,
Maimonides, p. 160, and reference on p. 330, n. 72; Ha-Zeman (monthly),
i. 102-103; Margolioth, Bet Middot, p. 20. Heine's admiration for these
idealists or those who succeeded them is well worth quoting. In his
essay on Poland, he says: "In spite of the barbaric fur cap which covers
his head and the even more barbaric ideas which fill it, I
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