Mendelssohn, Henriette, daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, 306-308 Mendelssohn, Joseph, son of Moses Mendelssohn, 305, 307 Mendelssohn, Moses, philosopher, 48 and Lessing, 299, 300, 314 and Maimonides, 164 as critic, 301-302 as reformer, 316 as translator, 40 children of, 304 disciples of, 309 friends of, 299, 314-315 in Berlin, 293, 296 ff marriage of, 303-304 quoted, 300, 301 Mendelssohn, Nathan, son of Moses Mendelssohn, 307 Mendelssohn, Recha, daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, 307 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 307, 308 Mendez, David Franco, dramatist, 244 _Meneketh Ribka_, by Rebekah Tiktiner, 119 Menelek, son of the Queen of Sheba, 262 _Merope_ by Maffei, 240 _Mesgid_, Falasha synagogue, 265 Mesopotamia, the Ten Tribes in, 259 Messer Leon, poet, 223 Meyer, Marianne, alluded to, 132 Meyer, Rachel, writer, 139 Meyer, Sarah, alluded to, 132 Meyerbeer, alluded to, 245 Midrash, commentary, 20, 53-54 Midrash Rabba, a Talmudic work, 21 _Migdal Oz_ by Luzzatto, 239 _Minchath Yehuda Soneh ha-Nashim_, by Judah ibn Sabbataï, 214-216 _Minnedienst_ absent from Jewish poetry, 122 Minnesingers, 182 Miriam, as poetess, 106 Miriam, Rashi's granddaughter, 118 _Mishlé Sandabar_, romance, 88 Mishna, the, commentary on, 60 compilation of, 58 in poetry, 201 _Mishneh Torah_ by Maimonides, 152-153 Missionaries in Abyssinia, 263-267 Mohammedanism, rise of, 77-78 Montefiore, Charlotte, writer, 133 Montefiore, Judith, philanthropist, 133 Montpellier, "Guide of the Perplexed" burnt at, 155 Jews at academy of, 86, 92 _Moreh Nebuchim_ by Maimonides, 146, 154, 161-162 Morgenstern, Lina, writer, 139 _Morgenstunden_ by Mendelssohn, 305 Moritz, friend of Henriette Herz, 313, 314 Morpurgo, Rachel, poetess, 137-138 Mosaic legislation, the, Maimonides on, 163 "Mosaic" style in Hebrew poetry, 201-202 Mosenthal, S. H., Ghetto novelist, 49, 50 Dingelstedt on, 319 Moser, Moses, friend of Heine, 324, 346 letters to, 350, 352 Moses, prophet, characterized by Heine, 365-366 in Africa, 255 Moses de Coucy, Talmudist, 36 Moses ibn Ezra, poet, 24, 32, 202-206, 207 Moses, Israel, teacher of Mendelssohn, 297-298 Moses of Narbonne, philosopher, 42 Moses Rieti, the Hebrew Dante, 35, 124 Moses Sephardi. See Petrus Alphonsus Mosessohn, Miriam, writer, 138 Munk, Solomon, scholar, 49 and Gabirol, 26, 83 translates _Moreh Nebuchim_, 146, 155 Münster, Sebastian, Hebrew scholar, 44, 95 Muscato, Judah, preacher, 376 Music among Jews, 372-376 Mussafia, Benjamin, author, 47 Nachmanides, exegete, 39 Nagara, Israel, poet, 43 "Names of the Jews, The," by Zunz, 335 Nasi, Joseph, statesman, 99 and the Polish election, 287 "Nathan the Wise" and tolerance, 185, 310-311 Nazarenes, defined by Heine, 359 _Nefesh_, Kabbalistic term, 41 _Neïlah_ prayer, A, 104 Neo-Hebraic literature. See Jewish literature Nero, alluded to, 232 _Neshama_, Kabbalistic term, 41 _Nesirim_, Falasha monks, 265