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1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) |
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Littman library of Jewish civilization |
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Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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The early Haskalah / David Sorkin -- Naphtali Herz Wessely and the cultural dislocations of an eighteenth-century maskil / Edward Breuer -- Enlightenment values, Jewish ethics: the Haskalah's transformation of the traditional Musar genre / Harris Bor -- Was there a 'Haskalah' in England? reconsidering an old question / David B. Ruderman -- Strategy and ruse in the Haskalah of Mendel Lefin of Satanow / Nancy Sinkoff -- The struggle of the mitnagedim and maskilim against Hasidism: Rabbi Jacob Emden and Judah Leib Mieses / Yehuda Friedlander -- Magic and miracle-workers in the literature of the haskalah / Immanuel Etkes -- Portrait of the maskil as a young man / Shmuel Werses -- Reality and its refraction in descriptions of women in Haskalah fiction / Tova Cohen -- Enlightened rabbis as reformers in Russian Jewish society / Joseph Salmon -- Towards a historical definition of the haskalah / Shmuel Feiner |
| Summary |
This volume, written by a range of scholars in history and literature, offers a new understanding of one of the central cultural and ideological movements among Jews in modern times. Disengaging the Haskalah from the questions of modernization or emancipation that have hitherto dominated the scholarship, the contributors have put the Haskalah under a microscope in order to restore detail and texture to the individuals, ideas, and activities that were its makers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular, they replace simple dichotomies with nuanced distinctions, presenting the r |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Haskalah -- Congresses
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Jews -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century -- Congresses
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Jews -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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Haskalah
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Jews -- Intellectual life
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Haskala.
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Jodendom.
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Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Feiner, Shmuel, editor.
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Sorkin, David Jan, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781909821316 |
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1909821314 |
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1904113265 |
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9781904113263 |
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