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The Complex Truth Of The Haskalah – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com

| August 22, 2022

Title: The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew LiteratureBy Marina ZilbergertsIndiana University Press, 184 pages Conventional wisdom says that although most of the heroes of early Modern Hebrew literature and poetry were born and raised in traditional families, their very foray into the world of the Haskalah and Eastern European intelligentsia demonstrates their total break from that religious milieu. Instead, these writers were said to have completely shed their backward upbringing in order to become participants in an enlightened republic of letters. They were said to be so thoroughly engrained in secular culture that their discarded background is of no use to scholars trying to understand what these writers meant and what drove them to write in the ways that they did

The Violence Of The Stranger – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com

| August 22, 2022

Our history is predicated on our being strangers, always in search of the place where we would find safety. Knowing our history, could anyone deny us the emotions that come from being outsiders?


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