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Salomon Maimon was an 18th-century Jewish philosopher with a deep understanding of rabbinic learning, whose skepticism was well received by Immanuel Kant. He was born as Salomon Ben Joshua in Lithuania in circa 1754, and he took on the surname “Maimon” in honor of the 12th-century Jewish philosopher, Moses Maimonides.

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Sam. Maimon : photograph of an engraving by W. Arndt, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2674.