Haskalah and Beyond: The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism

Moshe Pelli

doi:10.5771/9780761852049

Summary

Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) — the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe. It represents the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the Hebrew and Jewish enlighteners to introduce changes into Jewish culture and Jewish life, and to revitalize the Hebrew language and literature. The author classifies these activities as a 'cultural revolution.' In effect, the Haskalah was a counter-culture intended to modify or replace some of the contemporary rabbinic cultural framework, institutions, and practices and adopt them for its own envisioned 'Judaism of the Haskalah.' The pioneering work of the 'founding fathers' of the early Haskalah had greatly impacted the later developments of the Haskalah in the 19th century. Its reception in that century is studied as is the reception of one of the major figures of the early Haskalah, Isaac Euchel, and of one of the important German Enlightenment poets and philosophers, Johann Gottfried Herder, in the 19th-century Haskalah. The study of reception continues on the language of the sublime and the poetic imagery used in Haskalah, melitzah, as well as on the three major journals of Haskalah as instruments of change and of disseminating the Haskalah ideology. Finally, the aftermath of the Haskalah is addressed.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2012
Copyright Year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5203-2
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5204-9
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 267
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. 1: Chapter One - The Maskilim's Perception of Haskalah Judaism: Forming and Reforming, Vision and Revision No access
2. 2: Chapter Two - The Reception of Early German Haskalah in Nineteenth-Century Haskalah No access
3. 3: Chapter Three - Euchel's Reception Throughout the Nineteenth-Century Haskalah No access
4. 4: Chapter Four- The Reception of Herder in the Hebrew Haskalah No access
1. 5: Chapter Five - On the Role of Melitzah in Early Haskalah Literature and Its Reception at the End of the Period No access
1. 6: Chapter Six -Hame'asef: "A New Periodical Never Published Before" No access
2. 7: Chapter Seven - Bikurei Ha 'itim: The Hebrew Periodical of the Haskalah in Galicia No access
3. 8: Chapter Eight - Kerem Hemed: Hochmat Israel as the 'New Yavneh' No access
1. 9: Chapter Nine - Aftermath of the Haskalah: An Overview No access
Bibliography No access Pages 239 - 252
Index No access Pages 253 - 266
About the Author: Books by the Author No access Pages 267 - 267