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Moses Dobru?ka or Moses Dobruschka , alias Junius Frey (12 July 1753, Brno , Moravia ? 5 April 1794) was a writer, poet and revolutionary. His mother was the first cousin of Jacob Frank , who claimed to be the Jewish messiah and founded the Frankist sect. ^{[1] [2]}

On 17 December 1775 he converted from Judaism to the Catholic faith and took the name of Franz Thomas Schonfeld. ^[3] On 25 July 1778 he was elevated to nobility in Vienna , becoming Franz Thomas Edler von Schonfeld . ^[4] Together with Ephraim Joseph Hirschfeld  [ de ] , who did not convert, he became one of the main activists of the masonic lodge of the “ Knights of St. John the Evangelists for Asia in Europe ,” active in Germany and Austria between 1783 and 1790, which was the first German-speaking masonic order to accept Jews. ^{[ citation needed ]}

In 1792, in the wake of the French Revolution , he traveled via Strasbourg to Paris and became a Jacobin , changing his name, once again, to Junius Frey . The new name derived from Junius from the Roman Junii family that fostered the famous tyrant slayer Brutus , and Frey being a transliteration of the German word for "liberty". In June 1793 he published his book Philosophie sociale, dediee au peuple francois .

He was arrested for treason and espionage and executed by guillotine on 5 April 1794 in connection with the case against his brother-in-law Francois Chabot . ^[5]

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• Greco, Silvana, Moses Dobruska and the Invention of Social Philosophy. Utopia, Judaism, and Heresy under the French Revolution . De Gruyter Oldenburg, 2022.
• Greco, Silvana, Il sociologo eretico. Moses Dobruska e la sua Philosophie sociale (1793) . Giuntina, 2021.
• Wolfle-Fischer, Susanne, Junius Frey, 1753-1794: Jude, Aristokrat und Revolutionar . P. Lang, 1998.
• Davidowicz, Klaus Samuel , Jakob Frank, der Messias aus dem Ghetto . P. Lang, 1998.

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