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New perspectives on the Haskalah / edited by Shmuel Feiner and David Sorkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Liverpool scholarship online.
- Liverpool scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haskalah--Congresses.
- Haskalah.
- Jews--Europe--Intellectual life--18th century--Congresses.
- Jews.
- Jews--Europe--Intellectual life--19th century--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001.
- Summary:
- Revises our understanding of the relationship between the Haskalah, Orthodoxy, and hasidism, reassesses the role of key individuals in the movement, and offers a new, more nuanced, definition of the Haskalah. Should be of interest to all students of modern Jewish history, literature, and culture in eighteenth-century Germany and eastern Europe in the nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Dec 2019).
- ISBN:
- 1-80034-014-1
- 1-909821-31-4
- OCLC:
- 1048791283
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