03890nam 2200673Ia 450 991046509950332120200520144314.00-8135-5437-310.36019/9780813554372(CKB)2560000000102376(EBL)1210880(SSID)ssj0000747468(PQKBManifestationID)11930917(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000747468(PQKBWorkID)10703538(PQKB)10423151(MiAaPQ)EBC1210880(OCoLC)821738214(MdBmJHUP)muse18905(DE-B1597)526394(DE-B1597)9780813554372(Au-PeEL)EBL1210880(CaPaEBR)ebr10718798(CaONFJC)MIL496363(OCoLC)851315767(EXLCZ)99256000000010237620120207d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHaskalah[electronic resource] the romantic movement in Judaism /Olga LitvakNew Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Pressc20121 online resource (246 p.)Key Words in Jewish Studies ;3Key words in Jewish studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-5436-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Part I. Terms of Debate -- 1. Wrong Time, Wrong Place -- 2. Beyond the Enlightenment -- Part II. State of the Question -- 3. Haskalah and History -- 4. Haskalah and Modern Jewish Thought -- Part III. In A New Key -- 5. Exile -- 6. New Creation -- 7. Faith -- 8. Paradise -- 9. Fall -- 10. The End of Enlightenment -- Notes -- Index -- About the AuthorCommonly translated as the "Jewish Enlightenment," the Haskalah propelled Jews into modern life. Olga Litvak argues that the idea of a Jewish modernity, championed by adherents of this movement, did not originate in Western Europe's age of reason. Litvak contends that the Haskalah spearheaded a Jewish religious revival, better understood against the background of Eastern European Romanticism. Based on imaginative and historically grounded readings of primary sources, Litvak presents a compelling case for rethinking the relationship between the Haskalah and the experience of political and social emancipation. Most importantly, she challenges the prevailing view that the Haskalah provided the philosophical mainspring for Jewish liberalism. In Litvak's ambitious interpretation, nineteenth-century Eastern European intellectuals emerge as the authors of a Jewish Romantic revolution. Fueled by contradictory longings both for community and for personal freedom, the poets and scholars associated with the Haskalah questioned the moral costs of civic equality and the achievement of middle-class status. In the nineteenth century, their conservative approach to culture as the cure for the spiritual ills of the modern individual provided a powerful argument for the development of Jewish nationalism. Today, their ideas are equally resonant in contemporary debates about the ramifications of secularization for the future of Judaism.Key Words in Jewish StudiesHaskalahJudaismHistory18th centuryJudaismHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Haskalah.JudaismHistoryJudaismHistory296.09/033Litvak Olga1035606MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465099503321Haskalah2455383UNINA