haskalah

He established a publishing company and the family home became a meeting place for haskalah writers.

Shulamit Bat-Dori. 2009

Her notable contribution to Yiddish literature, unheralded in her lifetime, was to write in Yiddish in support of the haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) from a female perspective, an achievement made all the more remarkable by her lifelong struggle with depression and perhaps other undiagnosed emotional and physical illnesses which disrupted her ability to write.

Esther Kreitman. 2009

Dedicated to “the memory of my grandfather, Salomon Buber, the last master of the old haskalah.”

Martin Buber Zank, Michael 2007

David hears him go:A vague, remote pity stirred within his breast like a wreathing, raveling smoke, tenuously dispersed within his being, a kind of torpid heart-break he had felt sometimes in winter awakened deep in the night and hearing that dull tread descend the stairs as Albert went to work. (p.440)Instead of the familiar progress from halakhah (Jewish law) to haskalah (secular enlightenment), David makes use of religious props to smack up against the reality of modern urban life in “this Golden Land,” the New World.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

David hears him go:A vague, remote pity stirred within his breast like a wreathing, raveling smoke, tenuously dispersed within his being, a kind of torpid heart-break he had felt sometimes in winter awakened deep in the night and hearing that dull tread descend the stairs as Albert went to work. (p.440)Instead of the familiar progress from halakhah (Jewish law) to haskalah (secular enlightenment), David makes use of religious props to smack up against the reality of modern urban life in “this Golden Land,” the New World.

Call It Sleep 2009

(haskalah) proper which is already a holding on to these forms as they proceed from the Active Intellect.

Elijah Delmedigo Ross, Jacob 2005

The article begins with a historical perspective, making a case that post-haskalah (enlightenment), Jewish involvement and accomplishment in the brainy parts, namely arts and sciences (notice we’re not very good at sports) of the broader society has been vastly disproportionate to our meager numbers (”our” not including Murray, who isn’t Jewish).

Those Genius Jews | Jewschool 2007

Some taking responsibility would be in order: We’re sorry about how we responded in the haskalah, about listening to G-d’s order when a better idea was audible.

Arguing Over Judaism, hip, funded, or otherwise | Jewschool 2003