1) Haskalah. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Haskalah, (ha´skla´) (KEY) , [Heb.,=enlightenment] Jewish movement in Europe active from the 1770s to the 1880s. Beginning in Germany in the circle of the German... 2) Peretz, Isaac Loeb. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ..., 1852-1915, Jewish poet, novelist, playwright, and lawyer, b. Zamosc, Poland. A voice of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, Peretz was often accused of radicalism... 3) Gordon, Judah Leon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...he was one of the leaders in the renaissance of a progressive culture among the Jews (see Haskalah) and he was an indefatigable foe of obscurantism. His historical... 4) Bialik, Hayyim Nahman. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...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... 5) Mendele mocher sforim. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Third (1878). Strongly influenced by the secularizing trends of the Hebrew Enlightenment, or Haskalah, he attempted to influence the people to free themselves from... 6) Hebrew literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...historical scholarship, writers such as Peretz (Peter) Smolenskin were devoting themselves to Haskalah, or literature of enlightenment, intended to shake the Jews... 7) Jews. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...emancipation of the Jews was proclaimed after the Revolution of 1848. Simultaneously, the Haskalah encouraged the secularization of Jewish life, and the integration... 8) Judaism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...notably Abraham Geiger), this problem was met directly in Eastern Europe, giving rise to the Haskalah movement, whose members (e.g., Nachman Krochmal) sought to revitalize... |