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Haskalah : the romantic movement in Judaism / by Litvak, Olga

Table of Contents: “…State of the question -- Haskalah and history -- Haskalah and modern Jewish thought -- Part III. …”
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Haskalah and History : the Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness. by Feiner, Shmuel

Table of Contents: “…4: Reaching the Masses: The Dissemination of Maskilic HistoryThe Channels of Distribution; Optimistic and Patriotic History; Scientific Knowledge of the Past; The Autobiography of the Haskalah Movement; Abraham Mapu and the Popularization of Maskilic History; Heroics and Sacred Memories in Popular Historical Fiction; Improvement of the Masses: History in Yiddish; Kalman Schulman: The First Professional Popularizer; 5: Maskilic History in Crisis; The Radical Haskalah: A Loss of Optimism; The Anticlerical Struggle; The Historical Vindication of Hasidism.…”
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New perspectives on the Haskalah /

Table of 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? …”
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Haskalah and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland : a history of conflict / by Wodziński, Marcin

Table of Contents: “…Institutions of the Haskalah: The Maskilim as a Social Group; The Geography of the Polish Haskalah; Ideology and Programme; Does Language Make a Maskil?…”
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Pioneers : the first breach by An-Ski, S., 1863-1920

Subjects: “…Haskalah Fiction.…”
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For whom do I toil? : Judah Leib Gordon and the crisis of Russian Jewry by Stanislawski, Michael, 1952-

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No religion without idolatry : Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment by Freudenthal, Gideon

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Leo Strauss and the crisis of rationalism : another reason, another enlightenment by Pelluchon, Corine

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The Faith of secular Jews

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The verbal system in late enlightenment Hebrew by Kahn, Lily

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The Jewish enlightenment by Feiner, Shmuel

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The Jewish enlightenment by Feiner, Shmuel

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The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840. by Sorkin, David Jan

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Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment by Arkush, Allan, 1949-

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The origins of Jewish secularization in eighteenth-century Europe by Feiner, Shmuel

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Jewish philanthropy and enlightenment in late-Tsarist Russia by Horowitz, Brian

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Role model and countermodel : the golden age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation by Schapkow, Carsten, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Iberian-Sephardic culture as intercultural system of reference: between appropriation and disassociation -- The significance of Iberian-Sephardic culture for the Haskalah -- The origins of the science of Judaism: Iberian-Sephardic Jews as bearers of a European cultural tradition -- Jewish historiography and Jewish history in Spain as a countermodel -- Adaptations of the Iberian role and countermodel.…”
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Brody : a Galician border city in the long nineteenth century by Kuzmany, Börries

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A history of modern Jewish religious philosophy. by Schweid, Eliezer, 1929-2022

Table of Contents: “…The Attack on the Rabbinic Establishment: Spinoza's Influence on the Radical Hebrew Haskalah; Chapter Four Revealed Torah and Kant's Critical Idealism; A. …”
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Max Lilienthal : the making of the American rabbinate by Ruben, Bruce, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…German origins: between reaction and modernity -- Exporting Haskalah: the Russian mission -- On to America: congregational rabbi -- The evolution of a reformer -- Fighting for a moderate reform agenda -- Creating the new American rabbi -- The quest to unite American Jewry -- Legacy.…”
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From Kabbalah to class struggle : Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener by Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…-- Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture -- Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna -- On the way to Yiddish and emigration -- Soviet beginnings -- Folklore, language, and the haskalah -- Realism and the Yiddish literary canon -- Soviet literature and theory -- History and fiction -- Life writing : between the usable and unusable past.…”
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Medicine and the German Jews : a history by Efron, John M.

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of the medieval Jewish physician -- Jewish physicians: in and out of the German ghetto -- Haskalah and healing: Jewish medicine in the age of enlightenment -- The Jewish body degenerate? …”
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The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image by Etkes, I.

Table of Contents: “…Ha-Gaon He-Hasid : in his own time and for succeeding generations -- The Vilna Gaon and Haskalah -- The Vilna Gaon and the beginning of the struggle against Hasidism -- The Vilna Gaon and the Mitnagdim as seen by the Hasidim -- Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin's response to Hasidism -- Talmudic scholarship and the rabbinate in Lithuanian Jewry during the nineteenth century -- Torah and yira in the thought and practice of the Vilna Gaon.…”
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The rise of modern Yiddish culture by Fishman, David E., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of modern Yiddish culture : an overview -- The politics of Yiddish -- Language and revolution : Hevrat mefitse haskalah in 1905 -- The Bund's contribution -- Reinventing community -- New trends in interwar Yiddish culture -- The Judaism of secular Yiddishists -- Commemoration and cultural conflict : the Vilna Gaon's bicentennary -- Max Weinreich and the development of YIVO -- Embers plucked from the fire : the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna.…”
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The rise of modern Yiddish culture by Fishman, David E., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of modern Yiddish culture : an overview -- The politics of Yiddish -- Language and revolution : Hevrat mefitse haskalah in 1905 -- The Bund's contribution -- Reinventing community -- New trends in interwar Yiddish culture -- The Judaism of secular Yiddishists -- Commemoration and cultural conflict : the Vilna Gaon's bicentennary -- Max Weinreich and the development of YIVO -- Embers plucked from the fire : the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna.…”
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Simon Dubnow's "New Judaism" : Diaspora Nationalism and the World History of the Jews. by Seltzer, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Note; Part One Breaking with the Past, 1860-1886; Chapter One Leaving the Shtetl; Russian Jewry in the Reign of Alexander II; Dubnow's "First World"; The Vilna Haskalah and the Beginning of Simon's Rebellion; Chapter Two From Haskalah to Positivism; The Search for a Secular Education; The Impact of Radical Maskilim, Russian Nihilists, and their Western Exemplars; Dubnow's Self-Image in his Early Twenties; Chapter Three Young Dubnow as a Jewish Positivist; The Jewish Press in Nineteenth-century Russia; The Budding Career of a Russian-Jewish Critic.…”
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Jews and Messianism in the modern era : metaphor and meaning

Table of Contents: “…Symposium Jews and Messianism in the Modern Era: Metaphor and Meaning; The Messianic Idea and Zionist Ideologies; Interpreting Messianic Rhetoric in the Russian Haskalah and Early Zionism; "Forcing the End": Zionism and the State of Israel as Antimessianic Undertakings; A Neglected Chapter in the History of Christian Zionism in America: William E. …”
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The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 by Barṭal, Yiśraʼel

Table of Contents: “…The Jews of the kingdom -- The partitions of Poland: the end of the old order, 1772-1795 -- Towns and cities: society and economy, 1795-1863 -- Hasidim, mitnagdim, and maskilim -- Russia and the Jews -- Austria and the Jews of Galicia, 1772-1848 -- "Brotherhood" and disillusionment: Jews and Poles in the nineteenth century -- "My heart is in the West" : The Haskalah movement in Eastern Europe -- "The days of springtime": Czar Alexander II and the era of reform -- Between two extremes: radicalism and orthodoxy -- The conservative alliance: Galicia under Emperor Franz Josef -- "The Jew is coming!" …”
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Jewish translation history : a bibliography of bibliographies and studies

Table of Contents: “…Jewish Translation History; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Epigraph; Table of contents; Translation and re.ection on translation; Compiler's Introduction; Chapter 1 General; Chapter 2 Medieval and Early Renaissance, 900 to 1500; Chapter 3 Late Renaissance and EarlyModern Period, 1500 to 1750; Chapter 4 Haskalah Period, 1750-1850; Chapter 5 Translations into Hebrew, 1850-2000; Chapter 6 Translations of Hebrew Israeli literature; Chapter 7 Translations to and from Yiddish; Chapter 8 Judezmo (Ladino) translations; Chapter 9 Judeo-Italian translations; Chapter 10 Judeo-Persian translations.…”
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The origin of the modern Jewish woman writer : romance and reform in Victorian England by Galchinsky, Michael

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The JPS guide to Jewish women : 600 B.C.E.to 1900 C.E / Jewish Publication Society guide to Jewish women by Taitz, Emily

Table of Contents: “…. -- Jewish Women Under Islam: The Near East, North Africa, and Spain to 1492 -- Further from Home: Jewish Women in Christian Europe to 1492 -- A Separate Community: Jewish Women in Italy until the 1800s -- European Jewry Moves East: The Early Modern Period (1492-1750) -- A Different Voice: Jewish Women in the Lands of Islam (1750-1900) -- Opening Doors: Jewish Women During and After Haskalah (1750-1900) -- Jewish Women in the New World: From the First Settlement until 1900.…”
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The religious Enlightenment : Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna by Sorkin, David Jan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Enlightenment or enlightenments -- The religious enlightenment -- Reasonableness -- Toleration --The public sphere -- State nexus -- The enlightenment spectrum -- Brant Broughton, London, Gloucester : William Warburton's "heroic moderation" : Natural right and toleration -- History -- Established religion -- Justification, philosophy, and science -- Secular culture -- Moderation in decline -- Conclusion -- Geneva : Jacob Vernet's "middle way" : Theology -- Politics -- The Enlightenment and the philosophes -- Geneva transformed -- Halle : Siegmund Jacob Baumgarten's "vital knowledge" : "The union with God" -- Exegesis -- History, sacred and secular -- Natural right and toleration -- Neology and the state -- Berlin : Moses Mendelssohn's "vital script" : Intellectual renewal : philosophy -- Intellectual renewal : exegesis -- "Civic acceptance" and "divine legislation" -- "Socrates of Berlin" -- Haskalah and beyond -- Conclusion -- Vienna-Linz : Joseph Valentin Eybel's "reasonable doctrine" : Church law -- Linz and Joseph II -- "True devotion" -- Revolution -- Conclusion -- Toul-Paris-Lyon : Adrien Lamourette's "luminous side of faith" : Where France differed -- Catholicism -- The 1780s -- Theology -- Revolution, 1789-91 -- Revolution, 1791-94 -- Conclusion.…”

Polin : the Shtetl: Myth and Reality. by Polonsky, Antony

Table of Contents: “….), New Perspectives on the Haskalah; Brian Porter, When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland; Irena Janicka-Świderska, Jerzy Jarniewicz, and Adam Sumera (eds.), Jewish Themes in English and Polish Culture; Nancy L. …”
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Cultures in collision and conversation : essays in the intellectual history of the Jews / Essays in the intellectual history of the Jews by Berger, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…-- Miracles and the natural order in Nahmanides -- Polemic, exegesis, philosophy, and science : reflections on the tenacity of Ashkenazic modes of thought -- Malbim's secular knowledge and his relationship to the spirit of the Haskalah -- The uses of Maimonides by twentieth-century Jewry -- The Institute for Jewish Studies on its eightieth anniversary -- Interpreting the Bible -- "The wisest of all men" : Solomon's wisdom in medieval Jewish commentaries on the Book of Kings -- On the morality of the patriarchs in Jewish polemic and exegesis -- Yearning for redemption -- Three typological themes in early Jewish Messianism : Messiah son of Joseph, rabbinic calculations, and the figure of Armilus -- Some ironic consequences of Maimonides' rationalist approach to the Messianic age -- Sephardic and Ashkenazic Messianism in the Middle Ages : an examination of the historiographical controversy -- Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus : the impact of Zionism on Joseph Klausner's history of the second temple -- The fragility of religious doctrine : accounting for orthodox acquiescence in the belief in a second coming -- Epilogue. …”
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Rabbis and Revolution : the Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation. by Miller, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Rabbinic Enlightenment: Mordecai Benet and the Moravian Haskalah, 1789-1829; 3. Nehemias Trebitsch and the Decline of the Moravian Chief Rabbinate, 1832-1842; 4. …”
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Religion in times of crisis

Table of Contents: “…Being Recognizable in Order to Overcome the Crisis: The Ambivalence of Islamic Actors' Struggle for Visibility in France and Switzerland (Monnot and Piettre)From Haskalah to Reinterpretation of Tradition: A Crisis in American Reform Judaism in the 21st Century (Topić); Contributors; Religion and the Social Order.…”
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New approaches to religion and the Enlightenment

Table of Contents: “…New Approaches To Religion And The Enlightenment; Contents; Preface; Notes from Many Hands: Pierre Lyonnet's Redesign of Friedrich Christian Lesser's Insecto-Theology; An Apostate Maskil: The Effect of the Haskalah on Daniil Avraamovich Khvol'son; The Discourse of Civil Religion in M.M. …”
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The idea of modern Jewish culture by Schweid, Eliezer, 1929-2022

Table of Contents: “…Culture as a concept and culture as an ideal -- Tensions and contradiction -- Internalizing the cultural ideal -- The underlying philosophy of Jewish enlightenment -- The meaning of being a Jewish-Hebrew maskil -- Crossroads: the transition from haskalah to the science of Judaism -- The dialectic between national Hebrew culture and Jewish idealistic humanism -- The philosophic historic formation of Jewish humanism: a modern guide to the perplexed -- The science of Judaism : research in Judaism as a culture -- The science of Judaism, Reform Judaism, and historical positivism -- A critique of the science of Judaism and the cultural ideal of the enlightenment -- Accelerated change and revolution -- The vision of Jewish cultural renaissance in political Zionism -- The pioneering (ḥalutzic) culture of the Jewish labor movement in Palestine -- Polar views on sources of Jewish culture -- Alienation from religion and tradition -- The Jewish folk culture of Eretz Israel -- Judaism as the totality of a national historic culture -- Sanctity and the Jewish national movement -- The dimension of sanctity in pioneering Labor Zionism -- Orthodox Zionist culture: sanctifying modernity -- Judaism as a culture in the diaspora -- The secular Jewish culture of Yiddish -- The transition from the Hebrew culture of pre-state Eretz Israel to Israeli culture.…”
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Returning to Karl Popper : a reassessment of his politics and philosophy by Naraniecki, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Out of the Haskalah; 1. Introduction; 2. Was Karl Popper a Positivist?…”
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A world apart : a memoir of Jewish life in nineteenth century Galicia by Margoshes, Joseph, 1866-1955

Table of Contents: “…Family memoirs -- My mother's family -- My father -- Reb Mordecai Peltz -- The Belzer rabbi -- Ignatz Deutsch -- The Krakow rabbi -- The newspaper -- Hospitality -- The Talner rebb -- My father's death -- Yaha"sh -- Jacob Werber, the master of Haivri -- My childhood -- Melamdim -- Gemara melamdim -- My two girlfriends -- Haskalah -- Reb Vovtshi's kloyz -- In Tarnow -- The Tarnow kloyz -- Kloyz-boys -- Reb Naftoli Reb Pesakh's -- Shidukhim -- I become a khosn (groom) -- My wedding -- After the wedding -- Village work -- I get shot -- I get bound -- Riding a horse -- I become a merchant -- Yozefov -- Velvele Damask -- Radomishla -- A fallen takef -- At the rebbe's in Dembitz -- A strike in the Zgursk manor -- Jews and peasants -- Pritsim, gendarmes, and priests -- Pritsim, gendarmes, and priests (continued) -- The wedding -- Shimshen Asheim -- Theft -- Shtsutsin (Szczuczyn) -- The sold-off estate -- Wet and dry years -- The wet year -- The dry year -- Uncle Moyshe Lind -- Out of Yosefov -- The Shtsutsin meadows -- Oshitz -- Uncle Khazkl -- Yitshok Mordkhe Bernstein -- My business ventures in the Shtsutsin meadows -- My father-in-law and his enemies -- Criminal proceedings -- Pikolovka -- The takeover of Pikolovka -- Punishment or coincidence?…”
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