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Haskalah

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Also known as Jewish Enlightenment

thumb|360px|right|Top row, proto-Maskilim: Raphael Levi Hannover • [[Solomon Dubno • Tobias Cohn • Marcus Elieser Bloch 2nd row, Berlin Haskalah: Salomon Jacob Cohen • David Friedländer • Naphtali Hirz Wessely • Moses Mendelssohn3rd row, Austria and Galicia: Judah Löb Mieses • Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport • Joseph Perl • Baruch Jeitteles Bottom row, Russia: Avrom Ber Gotlober • Abraham Mapu • Samuel Joseph Fuenn • Isaac Baer Levinsohn ]]

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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • Definitions
  • Literary circle
  • Reforming movement
  • Transitory phenomena
  • Origins
  • Spread
  • Effects
  • List of Maskilim
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Literature
  • External links

thumb|360px|right|Top row, proto-Maskilim: Raphael Levi Hannover • [[Solomon Dubno • Tobias Cohn • Marcus Elieser Bloch 2nd row, Berlin Haskalah: Salomon Jacob Cohen • David Friedländer • Naphtali Hirz Wessely • Moses Mendelssohn3rd row, Austria and Galicia: Judah Löb Mieses • Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport • Joseph Perl • Baruch Jeitteles Bottom row, Russia: Avrom Ber Gotlober • Abraham Mapu • Samuel Joseph Fuenn • Isaac Baer Levinsohn ]]

The Haskalah (, 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. It arose as a defined ideological worldview during the 1770s, and its last stage ended around 1881, with the rise of Jewish nationalism.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Haskalah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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