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- modernization of Central and Eastern European Jews. Its activists, the Maskilim, exhorted and implemented communal, educational and cultural reforms in...
- knowledge of the Yiddish language. Advocates of the Haskalah (known as Maskilim, or Jewish Enlightenment) who favored the revival of Hebrew over the Yiddish...
- history", and as "the expression of Jewish ideals". Unlike many other Maskilim, he greatly respected the Hasidic Jews for their mode of being in the world;...
- them, because his God is the true source of knowledge; he is one of the maskilim (משכלים), the wise ones, who have the task of teaching righteousness and...
- came to the fore in 1782. Hartwig Wessely, Moses Mendelssohn, and other maskilim called for a reform of Jewish education, abolition of coercion in matters...
- Congress Poland in the 1810s, it was soon perceived as a dire threat. The maskilim themselves detested Hasidism as an anti-rationalist and barbaric phenomenon...
- entire "maskilic" discourse, hoping for a cultural and spiritual renewal. Maskilim were people educated in Hebrew literature but from a more secular standpoint...
- the Jewish Reform movement, becoming a prominent member of the Zamość Maskilim. He was committed to Jewish eman****tion, spoke Polish and Yiddish, and...
- century, stressing secular ideas and values. Champions of Haskalah, the Maskilim, pushed for ****imilation and integration into Russian culture. At the same...
- secular periodical in Hebrew, Ha-Me'****ef (The Gatherer), was published by maskilim in Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad) from 1783 onwards. In the mid-19th...