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Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
HASKALAH (JEWISH ENLIGHTENMENT) HASKALAH (JEWISH ENLIGHTENMENT). "Haskalah" is the Hebrew term for the Enlightenment movement and ideology that began in European Jewish society in the 1770s and continued until the 1880s. A proponent of the...
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Haskalah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Haskalah , [Heb.,=enlightenment] Jewish movement...spreading to Galicia and Russia, the Haskalah called for increased secularization of...Jewish emancipation. The proponents of the Haskalah ( maskilim ) established schools and published...
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Literature: Hebrew
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...time in a Hebrew-speaking milieu. Haskalah Era The year 1784, when Ha-Me...leader of the Jewish Enlightenment, or Haskalah, which advocated the modernization of...and social life. The writers of the Haskalah chose to write in Hebrew not only because...
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Judeo-Arabic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...European popular literature and, in some instances, works of Haskalah Hebrew writers. By the 1920s, Judeo-Arabic publication...see also alliance isra É lite universelle (aiu); haskalah. Bibliography Stillman, Norman A. "Language Patterns in...
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Jews
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...There was also a small band of maskilim, the adherents of Haskalah, which was the Jewish version of the European Enlightenment...reach the non-acculturated masses, followers of the Russian Haskalah wrote literary works in Yiddish and Hebrew, helping to create...
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Mendele mocher sforim
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...The Travels of Benjamin the Third (1878). Strongly influenced by the secularizing trends of the Hebrew Enlightenment, or Haskalah, he attempted to influence the people to free themselves from the physical and intellectual restraints of the ghetto. He...
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Hebrew literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...to biblical criticism and historical scholarship, writers such as Peretz (Peter) Smolenskin were devoting themselves to Haskalah, or literature of enlightenment, intended to shake the Jews of Central Europe from their medieval attitudes. Other important...
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Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Berlin, and Tel-Aviv, b. Volhynia, Russia. As an editor and publisher Bialik spread the ideas of the enlightenment (Haskalah). His fame began with the publication (1903) of his poem "In the City of Slaughter," inspired by a pogrom in Kishinev...
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Judaism and the body
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...Maimonides in the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry, to the German physician Tobias Cohen, whose 1707 book on medicine began the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, in Germany, to the Viennese neurologist Sigmund Freud, and beyond, had to deal with the particular...
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Gershom Scholem
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...besides elucidating the lines and teaching of many renowned Cabalists. He also demonstrated the influence of Cabalism on the Haskalah and Hasidic movements of the 18th and 19th centuries and noted its impact on the Zionist movement. From 1968-1974, Scholem...
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