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    The Haskalah (Hebrew: הַשְׂכָּלָה; literally, "wisdom", "erudition" or "education"), often termed the Jewish Enlightenment, was an intellectual movement...
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    Jewish emancipation (category Haskalah)
    emancipation followed after the Age of Enlightenment and the concurrent Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. Various nations repealed or superseded previous...
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    his pseudonym Ben Porat, was a Talmudist, rabbi and forerunner of the haskalah, or Jewish enlightenment. Born in Smorgon before relocating to Ilya, he...
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    lands experienced a cultural reorientation. Under the influence of the Haskalah and the struggle for emancipation, as well as the intellectual and cultural...
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    thinking Deism Democracy Empiricism Encyclopédistes Enlightened absolutism Haskalah Humanism Human rights Individualism Liberalism Liberté, égalité, fraternité...
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    Hellenic cultures, as well as modern movements such as the Enlightenment (see Haskalah) and the rise of nationalism, which would bear fruit in the form of a Jewish...
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    generally described as having three historical phases: Old Yiddish literature; Haskalah and Hasidic literature; and modern Yiddish literature. While firm dates...
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  • Anti-Yiddish sentiment (category Haskalah)
    antisemitism. Jewish opposition to Yiddish has often come from advocates of the Haskalah, Hebraists, Zionists, and assimilationists. Some of the earliest criticism...
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    thinking Deism Democracy Empiricism Encyclopédistes Enlightened absolutism Haskalah Humanism Human rights Individualism Liberalism Liberté, égalité, fraternité...
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    thinking Deism Democracy Empiricism Encyclopédistes Enlightened absolutism Haskalah Humanism Human rights Individualism Liberalism Liberté, égalité, fraternité...
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    a reaction to societal changes, including political emancipation, the Haskalah movement derived from the Enlightenment, acculturation, secularization...
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    century, in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. During this period, as Jewish assimilation in...
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    prompted their mass migration to Poland. The 18th century saw the rise of the Haskalah intellectual movement. Also starting in the 18th century, Jews began to...
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  • differentiation of them exists in classical Judaism. Since the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) and Jewish emancipation, some have come to view the halakha as less binding...
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    produced numerous rabbis and communal leaders. Following the rise of the Haskalah, the family produced several writers of the Enlightenment, scholars, musicians...
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    "bookseller". He began writing in Hebrew as a Haskalah writer and wrote according to all the conventions of Haskalah-era literature. At a certain point, he decided...
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    thinking Deism Democracy Empiricism Encyclopédistes Enlightened absolutism Haskalah Humanism Human rights Individualism Liberalism Liberté, égalité, fraternité...
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    mesorah as to its authenticity, among other reasons. Landau condemned the haskalah movement in harsh terms. In numerous public sermons, he campaigned against...
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    thinking Deism Democracy Empiricism Encyclopédistes Enlightened absolutism Haskalah Humanism Human rights Individualism Liberalism Liberté, égalité, fraternité...
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    Bohemian Reformation Hussites History of European Jews in the Middle Ages Haskalah Islamic world contributions to Medieval Europe Protestant Reformation Ninety-five...
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    Enlightenment, Haskalah, began to take hold in Poland during the 19th century, stressing secular ideas and values. Champions of Haskalah, the Maskilim...
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    acculturation and religious laxity in the West troubled both camps. When the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, appeared in Galicia and Congress Poland in the...
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    exempt from conscription, whereas single Jews, as well as "heretics" (Haskalah influenced individuals), paupers, outcasts, and orphaned children were...
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    German"—declined in the 18th century, as the Age of Enlightenment and the Haskalah led to a view of Yiddish as a corrupt dialect. The 19th-century Prussian-Jewish...
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  • Hinduism and Judaism Islamic–Jewish relations Middle Ages Golden Age Modern era Haskalah Sabbateans Hasidism Jewish atheism Emancipation Old Yishuv Zionism Soviet...
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    Hinduism and Judaism Islamic–Jewish relations Middle Ages Golden Age Modern era Haskalah Sabbateans Hasidism Jewish atheism Emancipation Old Yishuv Zionism Soviet...
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  • Hinduism and Judaism Islamic–Jewish relations Middle Ages Golden Age Modern era Haskalah Sabbateans Hasidism Jewish atheism Emancipation Old Yishuv Zionism Soviet...
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  • Hinduism and Judaism Islamic–Jewish relations Middle Ages Golden Age Modern era Haskalah Sabbateans Hasidism Jewish atheism Emancipation Old Yishuv Zionism Soviet...
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    Al-Andalus Yemenite Epic Medieval Hebrew Modern Hebrew Holocaust Philosophy Haskalah Philosophers Maimonides Strauss Music Secular Religious Mizrahi Sephardic...
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    authority, in contrast to prosaic secularization, appeared in the form of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) movement which came to the fore in 1782. Hartwig...
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