Haskalah and Beyond: The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism

by Moshe Pelli

Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) -- the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe.
It represents the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the Hebrew and Jewish enlighteners to introduce changes into Jewish culture and Jewish life, and to revitalize the Hebrew language and literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761852034
• ISBN13: 9780761852032
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"