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New perspectives on the Haskalah /

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 scholar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Feiner, Shmuel (Editor ), Sorkin, David Jan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001.
Colección:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.