Haskalah

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Enlightenment movement Jewish Enlightenment Jewish intellectual movement

Haskalah was the Jewish Enlightenment movement of the 18th and 19th centuries that promoted secular education, integration into European society, and religious reform among Jews.

Aliases (6)

Jewish Enlightenment ×4
German Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) ×1
Haskalah literature ×1
Haskalah thinkers ×1
Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) ×1
Jewish Haskalah ×1

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Enlightenment movement → Jewish Enlightenment → Jewish intellectual movement →
aimedAt	encouragement of vocational and professional training → integration of Jews into European society → modernization of Jewish life → promotion of European languages among Jews → reduction of Yiddish use in favor of European languages → reform of traditional Jewish education → religious reform within Judaism → secular education for Jews →
challenged	strict communal autonomy of Jewish communities → traditional rabbinic authority →
criticizedBy	Hasidic leaders → traditionalist rabbis →
definesTerm	maskil →
encouraged	Jewish acculturation → Jewish emancipation → Jewish engagement with general European culture → modern Hebrew literature → reform of Jewish religious practice → use of vernacular languages in Jewish life →
hasAlternativeName	Jewish Enlightenment →
hasCoreValue	civic equality → cultural integration → education → rational inquiry → tolerance →
hasCulturalProduct	Haskalah Hebrew literature → maskilic periodicals → satirical writings about traditional Jewish life →
hasEndTime	late 19th century →
hasKeyFigure	Isaac Euchel → Joseph Perl → Judah Leib Gordon → Moses Mendelssohn → Naphtali Herz Wessely → Peretz Smolenskin → Solomon Maimon →
hasLanguage	German → Hebrew → Russian → Yiddish →
hasMainRegion	Central Europe → Eastern Europe → German-speaking lands → Russian Empire →
hasSocialGroup	maskilim →
hasStartTime	late 18th century →
influenced	Hebrew literary revival → Jewish Reform movement → Jewish nationalism → Jewish secularism → Modern Orthodox Judaism → early Zionism →
influencedBy	European Enlightenment → rationalism → secular humanism →
opposed	Jewish cultural isolation →
originatedIn	German lands →
promoted	civic participation by Jews → critical study of Jewish texts → study of European literature → study of philosophy → study of secular sciences →
spreadTo	Galicia → Poland → Russian Empire →

Referenced by (23)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
I. L. Peretz → I. L. Peretz ("Jewish Enlightenment") → I. L. Peretz → Mendele Mocher Sforim → Mendele Mocher Sforim ("Jewish Enlightenment") → Moses Mendelssohn → The Mare (Dos kleyne mentshele) →	movement
Abraham Geiger → Ahad Ha'am → Al Parashat Derakhim → Bnei Moshe →	influencedBy
German Enlightenment ("Jewish Haskalah") → Moses Mendelssohn ("Haskalah thinkers") → Phädon ("German Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)") →	influenced
Reform Judaism → Reform Judaism ("Jewish Enlightenment") →	developedFrom
Fishke the Lame ("Haskalah literature") → The Travels of Benjamin the Third →	literaryMovement
Deutsche Aufklärung → German Enlightenment →	relatedMovement
Haskalah ("Jewish Enlightenment") →	hasAlternativeName
Yiddish literature →	isLinkedTo
Phädon ("Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)") →	religiousContext