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Subject(s)

• Hebrew literature, Modern [Browse]
• Haskalah [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-352) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction: Haskalah, rebirth of Hebrew letters: revival of Hebrew and the rejuvenation of the Jewish people
• Haskalah in search of genre: beginning of Haskalah and modernity
• Epistolary story: Isaac Euchel's "Igrot Meshulam": the Maskil as a young Jew in search of his identity
• Fable: The phenomena of the fable in Hameʼasef: a fabulous moral for the enlightened
• Satire: Saul Berlin's Ktav Yosher: criticism of traditional Judaism
• Dialogues of the dead: Tuvyah Feder's Kol Meḥazezim: an early Maskilic inner-conflict on the translation of the Hebrew Bible
• Travelogue: Shmuel Romanelli's Masa Baʼrav: a Maskil's 'grand tour' to a Jewry in distress in Morocco
• Autobiography: Mordechai Aharon Günzburg's Aviezer: the process of becoming a Maskil
• The satiric novel: Peretz Smolenskin's Kevurat Ḥamor: Jewish reality as mirrored in a Haskalah satire
• Postscript.

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ISBN

• 0761833072 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780761833079

LCCN

^^2005929544

OCLC

62726369

RCP

H - S

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