Haskalah - Wikipedia
The Haskalah (Hebrew: הַשְׂכָּלָה; literally, "wisdom", "erudition" or "education"), often termed the Jewish Enlightenment, was an intellectual movement among the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, with a certain influence on those in Western Europe and the Muslim world.
Modern Jewish History: The Haskalah - Jewish Virtual Library
The Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, was an intellectual movement in Europe that lasted from approximately the 1770s to the 1880s. The Haskalah was inspired by the European Enlightenment but had a Jewish character.
Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment | My Jewish Learning
Haskalah (השׂכּלה), “ [the] Enlightenment,” [is] the movement which originated in 18th‑century Germany with the aim of broadening the intellectual and social horizons of the Jews to enable them to take their place in Western society.
Haskalah - Jewish History
Haskalah. In the 19 th century in Russia there occurred a drastic change in Jewish life whose ripple effects are still felt today. For the first time in perhaps seven or eight centuries Jews orchestrated a direct confrontation with traditional Judaism. Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, came in various forms and each form had differing goals ...
Haskala | Jewish Enlightenment & Reforms | Britannica
Haskala, a late 18th- and 19th-century intellectual movement among the Jews of central and eastern Europe that attempted to acquaint Jews with the European and Hebrew languages and with secular education and culture as supplements to traditional Talmudic studies.
HASKALAH - JewishEncyclopedia.com
Generally, "haskalah" indicates the beginning of the movement among the Jews about the end of the eighteenth century in Eastern Europe toward abandoning their exclusiveness and acquiring the knowledge, manners, and aspirations of the nations among whom they dwell.
Haskalah - Jewish Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
Jan 15, 2015 · Haskalah, or the Jewish Enlightenment movement, is the name for a relatively small group of Jewish intellectuals in central and eastern Europe from the last decades of the 18th century until the end of the 19th century.
Haskalah - Jewish Virtual Library
HASKALAH (Heb. הַשְׂכָּלָה), Hebrew term for the Enlightenment movement and ideology which began within Jewish society in the 1770s. An adherent of Haskalah became known as a maskil (pl. maskilim). The movement continued to be influential …
Haskalah - The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
The Haskalah in Eastern Europe was a principal expression of the processes of modernization undergone by Jews during the nineteenth century. The movement simultaneously increased the receptivity of many Jews to European civilization and led the process of Jewish cultural renewal, whose main expressions were modern literature in Hebrew and Yiddish.
Haskalah - Encyclopedia.com
May 18, 2018 · HASKALAH (Heb. הַשְׂכָּלָה), Hebrew term for the Enlightenment movement and ideology which began within Jewish society in the 1770s. An adherent of Haskalah became known as a maskil (pl. maskilim). The movement continued to be influential and spread, with fluctuations, until the early 1880s.