Haskalah
Proper noun
Meaning
Haskalah
The Jewish Enlightenment, an Enlightenment movement among European Jewry.
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Examples
Early life and education Von Neumann was born Neumann János Lajos to wealthy Jewish parents of the Haskalah (in Hungarian the family name comes first and his given names equate to John Lewis in English).
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda The literary and narrative use of Hebrew was revived beginning with the Haskalah movement.
His ideological and stylistic influence on the Haskalah was as decisive as that of Friedrich Schiller.
University of Alabama Press, 1990. p. 44. In Galicia especially, hostility towards it defined the Haskalah to a large extent, from the staunchly observant Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes and Joseph Perl to the radical anti-Talmudists like Osias Schorr.
Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period by Zinberg, Israel.
The Haskalah was always a minor force, but the Jewish national movements which emerged in the 1880s, as well as Socialism, proved much more appealing to the young.