The Berlin Haskalah was the Jewish attempt to rearticulate belief to accommodate the new science and philosophy of the Enlightenment. This study argues that the Haskalah should be understood within...
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.
This book discusses the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment), representing the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the Hebrew and Jewish enlighteners to ...
Litvak contends that the Haskalah spearheaded a Jewish religious revival, better understood against the background of Eastern European Romanticism.
38 David Ruderman, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe, New Haven 1995, 129–152. 39 See ibid., especially 138–152. A parallel might be found in Barzilay's treatment of Ma- nasseh of Ilya, an early ...
Shmuel Feinerâ??s innovative book recreates the historical consciousness that fired the Haskalahâ??the Jewish Enlightenment movement. The proponents of this movement advocated that Jews should capture the spirit of the future...
This text reconstructs the intellectual and social revolution of the Haskalah as it gradually gathered momentum throughout the 18th-century.
The Age of Haskalah is a seminal study of the beginnings of the Haskalah (Hebrew Enlightenment) in Germany in the last quarter of the 18th century.
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Looking to contexts ranging from premodern Spain and Italy to nineteenth-century Russia, Germany, and America, the contributors to this volume explore the ways the political and intellectual aspirations of successive historical presents ...