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
Preface
- 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
Summary
THE editors would like to thank the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies for sponsoring as a Marc Rich Seminar the conference on which this volume is based. The beautiful setting of Yarnton Manor, its fine accommodation and its helpful and experienced staff allowed us the rare opportunity to experience the true meaning of the phrase ‘a community of scholars’. We would especially like to acknowledge the achievement of the Centre's founder and first president, David Patterson: his dream of making Yarnton Manor a home to scholars and scholarship has been realized.
The Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia at Bar Ilan University recognized the importance of this project and provided financial support for editing the volume.
The Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and its tireless secretary Anita Lightfoot, offered clerical assistance.
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization has been everything for which the editors could have wished. Connie Webber has shown unflagging enthusiasm. Janet Moth has been an outstanding editor, expertly handling problems of all dimensions (from murky prose to the nightmare of transliteration).
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- New Perspectives on the Haskalah , pp. v - viPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2001