Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 The Early Haskalah
- 2 Naphtali Herz Wessely and the Cultural Dislocations of an Eighteenth-Century Maskil
- 3 Enlightenment Values, Jewish Ethics: The Haskalah's Transformation of the Traditional Musar Genre
- 4 Was there a ‘Haskalah’ in England? Reconsidering an Old Question
- 5 Strategy and Ruse in the Haskalah of Mendel Lefin of Satanow
- 6 The Struggle of the Mitnagedim and Maskilim against Hasidism: Rabbi Jacob Emden and Judah Leib Mieses
- 7 Magic and Miracle-Workers in the Literature of the Haskalah
- 8 Portrait of the Maskil as a Young Man
- 9 Reality and its Refraction in Descriptions of Women in Haskalah Fiction
- 10 Enlightened Rabbis as Reformers in Russian Jewish Society
- 11 Towards a Historical Definition of the Haskalah
- Glossary
- Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
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Note on Transliteration
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 The Early Haskalah
- 2 Naphtali Herz Wessely and the Cultural Dislocations of an Eighteenth-Century Maskil
- 3 Enlightenment Values, Jewish Ethics: The Haskalah's Transformation of the Traditional Musar Genre
- 4 Was there a ‘Haskalah’ in England? Reconsidering an Old Question
- 5 Strategy and Ruse in the Haskalah of Mendel Lefin of Satanow
- 6 The Struggle of the Mitnagedim and Maskilim against Hasidism: Rabbi Jacob Emden and Judah Leib Mieses
- 7 Magic and Miracle-Workers in the Literature of the Haskalah
- 8 Portrait of the Maskil as a Young Man
- 9 Reality and its Refraction in Descriptions of Women in Haskalah Fiction
- 10 Enlightened Rabbis as Reformers in Russian Jewish Society
- 11 Towards a Historical Definition of the Haskalah
- Glossary
- Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
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- New Perspectives on the Haskalah , pp. ix - xPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2001