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- Title
The Pseudo-Enlightenment and the Question of Jewish Modernization.
- Authors
Feiner, Shmuel
- Abstract
The article emphasizes the difficulty for the nineteenth-century East European maskilim to gain legitimacy in their social reality. Young maskilim were condemn as heretics in Hasidic society. The Enlightenment in Europe is usually understood as a social movement and ideological pattern whose historical direction led toward modernization, secularism and political revolution. The term Haskalah is differentiated. Political radicalism is largely irrelevant in the context of the Jewish Enlightenment. The Haskalah is clearly an urban phenomenon evolving in cities such as Berlin, Konigsberg and Vienna where Jewish upper and middle class families had undergone European acculturation in the past two or three generations.
- Subjects
SOCIAL movements; JEWISH heretics; JUDAISM; HASKALAH; ENLIGHTENMENT; ACCULTURATION; REFORM Judaism; SOCIAL change; LIBERALISM (Religion)
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 1996, Vol 3, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Article