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A Review

Edit Huffington Post 25 Aug 2015
The quest began when Steven L. Pease was second in command (Executive Vice President and COO) and the only non-Jew at REDI, then the largest provider of real estate information in the United States ... His interest was piqued ... Not completely ... VE ... Further, many Jews may be less motivated to drive themselves in the way they have over the last 200 years which were shaped by the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), Napoleon's Emancipation, and etc ... ....

Jewish State / Islamic States / United States

Edit CounterPunch 20 Feb 2015
11, 2015 ... In this case, no need ... One major obstacle to that project was the textual religious tradition that anticipated a return to Israel, only after the Mashiach (Messiah) appeared in an apocalyptic messianic age, and thus the early hostility of the Orthodox religious to any politicized innovation born of the Jewish Enlightenment, the Haskalah, associated with Moses Mendlesohn, and the Yiddish and Hebrew literature spawned from it....

Shtetl: A Word that Holds a Special Place in Hearts and Minds (Rutgers University)

Edit noodls 25 Aug 2014
(Source. Rutgers University). One of Jeffrey Shandler's quests in writing his latest book, Shtetl. A Vernacular in Intellectual History, was understanding how this seemingly simple word has come to signify so much to so many ... Among other topics, the series also explores Jewish families, space and place in Jewish studies, and the Haskalah, an intellectual movement of the 18th and 19th centuries inspired by the European Enlightenment....

Shtetl: A Word that Holds a Special Place in Hearts and Minds (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)

Edit noodls 25 Aug 2014
(Source. Rutgers University, New Brunswick). One of Jeffrey Shandler's quests in writing his latest book, Shtetl ... But according to Shandler, a professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers ... Among other topics, the series also explores Jewish families, space and place in Jewish studies, and the Haskalah, an intellectual movement of the 18th and 19th centuries inspired by the European Enlightenment ...   ... distributed by ... (noodl....

The birth of Zionism, part 1

Edit The Examiner 02 Aug 2014
Modern Europe, especially in the East, saw a historically important increase in nationalism and political solidarity among European Jews ... They saw their eventual restoration to Israel as coming with the return of the Messiah ... With Czar Alexander II, ruling 1855-1881, the Jews experienced a relaxation of this persecution, ushering in the movement of liberal reform known as the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment ... (2012-06-14) ... Pluto Press ... ....

The birth of Zionism, part 2

Edit The Examiner 02 Aug 2014
Yehuda Alkalai, a rabbi writing in the late 1830s, would publish a work called "Pleasant Paths," in which he advocated the colonization of Zion. Another one of his contemporaries in East Prussia likewise published "Rome and Jerusalem." ... With the dissolution of the Haskalah, isolated remnants of Jewishw riters and intellectuals continued to support the idea, and the 1870s saw the rise of committed Zionist groups ... (2012-06-14) ... Pluto Press....

Emancipating Europe’s Jews to spark a revolution

Edit The Irish Times 12 Apr 2014
One night in April 1743 a young Jew named Moses was walking towards Berlin from the city of Dessau. It was a difficult journey of more than 150km ... He would become Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and critic, and a founder of what Jews call the Haskalah, or the Enlightenment, an attempt, inspired by the ideas of Spinoza, Kant and Voltaire, to reform Judaism and make it more integrated into European society ... They were a test case ... ....

Passion and history rule in 'Story of the Jews'

Edit The Charlotte Observer 28 Mar 2014
Simon Schama has become the great popularizer of our time through the application of an infectious passion to his encyclopedic knowledge of history ... At another point, we meet Moses Mendelssohn, an 18th-century German Jewish philosopher considered a key figure in the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), which marked a movement among many Jews to become part of the mainstream of society in the 18th and 19th centuries ... The hard times ... ....

Passion and history rule in Schama’s `Story of the Jews’

Edit The Charlotte Observer 27 Mar 2014
Simon Schama has become the great popularizer of our time through the application of an infectious passion to his encyclopedic knowledge of history ... At another point, we meet Moses Mendelssohn, an 18th-century German Jewish philosopher considered a key figure in the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), which marked a movement among many Jews to become part of the mainstream of society in the 18th and 19th centuries ... The hard times ... ....

'Story of the Jews' review: Rich with detail, a bit complex

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 23 Mar 2014
The Story of the Jews. Documentary miniseries; episodes 1 and 2, 8 p.m. Tuesday; episodes 3-5, 8 p.m. April 1; PBS ... At another point, we meet Moses Mendelssohn, an 18th century German Jewish philosopher considered a key figure in the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), which marked a movement among many Jews to become part of the mainstream of society in the 18th and 19th centuries. Jewish influence ... The hard times ... Did we miss something? ... ....
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