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... Haskala spirit of elevating the uneducated Jewish masses , eastern European Jewish poets , short - story writers , and novelists turned to the lingua franca of the lowly Jews , Yiddish . The origins of the professional Yiddish theatre ...
... Haskala spirit of elevating the uneducated Jewish masses , eastern European Jewish poets , short - story writers , and novelists turned to the lingua franca of the lowly Jews , Yiddish . The origins of the professional Yiddish theatre ...
Page 322
... Haskala ( Enlightenment ) among the Ashkenazim of central and eastern Europe is often taken as the starting point of Jewish modernity , the process of Westernization had begun a good deal earlier among the Sefardim in western Europe and ...
... Haskala ( Enlightenment ) among the Ashkenazim of central and eastern Europe is often taken as the starting point of Jewish modernity , the process of Westernization had begun a good deal earlier among the Sefardim in western Europe and ...
Page 323
... Haskala abandoned the use of Hebrew for German and gradually disintegrated . Unlike Mendelssohn himself , the immediate descendants of his circle and his own children were unable to strike a balance between Jewish and secu- lar culture ...
... Haskala abandoned the use of Hebrew for German and gradually disintegrated . Unlike Mendelssohn himself , the immediate descendants of his circle and his own children were unable to strike a balance between Jewish and secu- lar culture ...
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