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New Perspectives on the Haskalah »

Authors: Shmuel Feiner (Editor), David Sorkin
ISBN-13: 9781904113263, ISBN-10: 1904113265
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Note on Transliteration
	Introduction	1
1	The Early Haskalah	9
2	Naphtali Herz Wessely and the Cultural Dislocations of an Eighteenth-Century Maskil	27
3	Enlightenment Values, Jewish Ethics: The Haskalah's Transformation of the Traditional Musar Genre	48
4	Was there a 'Haskalah' in England? Reconsidering an Old Question	64
5	Strategy and Ruse in the Haskalah of Mendel Lefin of Satanow	86
6	The Struggle of the Mitnagedim and Maskilim against Hasidism: Rabbi Jacob Emden and Judah Leib Mieses	103
7	Magic and Miracle-Workers in the Literature of the Haskalah	113
8	Portrait of the Maskil as a Young Man	128
9	Reality and its Refraction in Descriptions of Women in Haskalah Fiction	144
10	Enlightened Rabbis as Reformers in Russian Jewish Society	166
11	Towards a Historical Definition of the Haskalah	184
	Glossary	221
	Notes on Contributors	224
	Bibliography	225
	Index	251