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The Maskilim/Haskalah Movement

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Not all Maskilim favored the change in the schooling systems.

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Father Of The Haskalah

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Jewish children ‘were not all created to become Talmudists’

"The Maskilim encouraged a switch in Jewish professions. Jews moved from commercial jobs such as money lending and trade to more skilled jobs such as crafts and agriculture."

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JOHN BOWKER. "Haskalah." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (September 29, 2014). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Haskalah.html

Schoenberg, Shira. "Modern Jewish History: The Haskalah." Jewish Virtual

Library. Last modified 2014. Accessed October 1, 2014.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Haskalah.html.

Mendes-Flohr, Paul, and Jehuda Reinharz, eds. The Jew in the Modern Word: A

Documentary History. 3rd ed. 11. Mekize Nirdamim 263. New York, NY: Oxford

University Press, 2011.

Jacobs, Rabbi Louis. "Haskalah in Russia and Galicia: The development and

expansion of the Jewish Enlightenment." My Jewish Learning. Accessed

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1700-1914/Emancipation_and_Enlightenment/In_the_East/Russia/Haskalah_II.shtml.

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Yiddish was cast away in favor of Hebrew and German. Even Eliezer Lipmann Silberman wrote in Hebrew!
“The Haskalah marked the end of the use of Yiddish, the revival of Hebrew and an adoption of European languages”

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Was the Diaspora still seen as a punishment?

No! Now it is a result of "historical and geographical factors."

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During the Haskalah, the Torah was translated into German.
Many people began to beleive that children were not all meant to grow up to be Talmudists.

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“The term Haskalah, in medieval Jewish literature, is from the Hebrew word sekhel, “the intellect,” but, as here applied, refers to the attitude of attraction to general knowledge, secular learning, and Western culture."

“German Jews and some individual Polish and Lithuanian Jews had a desire for secular education.”

It was mainly an Ashkenazic movement.

“ After emancipation there was a rise in assimilation, but also in Jewish nationalism. Many Maskilim identified themselves expressly as Germans”

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"Eliezer Lipmann Silberman was a Hebrew writer and editor." He was also a German Rabbi.

"Born in Koeningsberg to a traditional family, he remained observant."

“He was an advocate of modern Haskalah”

"He had a PhD in Hebrew Letters."

His job was that he was a Shochet(Slaughterer), because he remained observant

"he felt it was necessary for jews to participate in modern culture."

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"In 1856 he began in Lyck (East Persia) the first Hebrew newspaper, Hamagid."

“Hagmid contained a section devoted to modern Jewish studies."