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Haskalah
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Haskalah (hä'skəlä`), [Heb.,=enlightenment] Jewish movement in Europe active from the 1770s to the 1880s. Beginning in Germany in the circle of the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and spreading to Galicia and Russia, the Haskalah called for increased secularization of Jewish life through secular learning, a concern for esthetics, and linguistic assimilation (especially in Germany), all in the cause of speeding Jewish emancipation. The proponents of the Haskalah (maskilim) established schools and published periodicals and other works. By publishing in Hebrew, they contributed to the revival of the language.

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See J. Katz, Tradition and Crisis (1961).
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Freyne is helpful, though, in suggesting the post-exilic maskilim ("wise") as possible carriers of Jesus traditions.
Jesus, A Jewish Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus-Story by Oakman, Douglas E. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
Mendelssohn and his followers - the Maskilim, or "enlightened ones"-set up schools that taught both secular and Jewish subjects; they disdained Yiddish, which they considered a "ghetto language," and instead promoted Hebrew as the proper vehicle for the discussion of Enlightenment ideas.
The evolution of secular Judaism by Kulick, Seth / The Humanist
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