Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
Congratulations to Willi Goetschel who received the Moses Mendelssohn Prize of the City of Dessau. The Prize is biannually awarded by the City of Dessau and the Dessau Moses Mendelssohn Foundation for the Advancement of the Humanities for outstanding work on Moses Mendelssohn and German Jewish thought and intellectual history.
Willi Goetschel is the fifth recipient of the prize. For a video clip of the local TV station see https://www.ran1.de/index.php?cmd=14949. For an article about the prize and this year’s recipient you can also read an article in the Jüdische Allgemeine: https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/kultur/die-eigenheit-des-judentums/