A pogrom is a premeditated, organized, violent riot with the aim of threatening, intimidating, and massacring Jews, made ...

Mendelssohn, the father of the Jewish Enlightenment, suited several of these purposes nicely. “There have been anthologies of Moses Mendelssohn’s formal philosophical writings on aesthetics and ...

The Haredim can trace their roots back to 19th-century Eastern Europe: a community of religious scholars that grew as a response to the Jewish Enlightenment and the spread of secular ideology and ...

often called the Jewish Enlightenment. “It’s true, in many cases, that in continental Europe progressive Judaism is today a ...

Berlin is the place where the Jewish Enlightenment came into being, where there was this big experiment of acculturation, and in the Weimar Republic, this incredible symbiosis of Jews and Germany ...

The encounter of Jews with the Enlightenment movement has so far been considered almost entirely from a masculine perspective. This highly original study, based on analysis of the correspondence and ...

a scholar associated with the Jewish Enlightenment movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. But for more than 80 years after the Holocaust decimated Czech Jews, the Klausen Synagogue held no services.

It can be claimed with nearly 100% certainty that no People/Nation has been blamed more often for more baseless reasons than ...

a scholar associated with the Jewish Enlightenment movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. But for more than 80 years after the Holocaust decimated Czech Jews, the Klausen Synagogue held no services.