Haskalah
Pronunciations
Haskalah | (hahs-kah-LAH) | listen |
Definitions
n. 19th century Jewish Enlightenment, in which modern philosophy and literature entered Jewish consciousness
Example Sentences
With the Haskalah, Eastern European Jews finally saw the introduction of humanistic ideals.
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
Etymology
השכלה haskalá, Yiddish/Ashkenazi pronunciation haskóle/haskúle 'lit., education, knowledge; with definite article, the Jewish Englightenment movement'
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
- Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
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- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
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Alternative Spellings
Haskolah, Haskola, Haskala
Notes
Some pronounce it the Israeli/Sephardi way, with stress on the last syllable, and others the Yiddish/Ashkenazi way, with stress on the penultimate syllable.
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