The Haskalah Movement in RussiaRaisin, Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon)
Religion
The Haskalah Movement in Russia
Raisin, Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon)
Haskalah -- Soviet Union; Jews -- Soviet Union
[Footnote 25: The same phenomenon was witnessed to a certain extent also
in Galicia, where for a while Haskalah flourished in great splendor.
There, too, the charm and fecundity of German literature, the similarity
of Yiddish to German, and the privileges the Austrian Government
accorded them, proved too strong a temptation for the Jews, and many of
those who became enlightened were rapidly assimilated with their Gentile
countrymen. While, therefore, in Galicia the Haskalah movement lasted
longer than in Germany, it had ceased long before it reached its fullest
development in Russia. Austrian civilization accelerated the
assimilation of the educated, Polish prejudice retarded the progress of
the masses. So that though Erter, Letteris, Krochmal, Goldenberg,
Mieses, Rapoport, Perl, and Schorr exerted a great influence in Russia,
their own country remained unaffected. Many of them, like A. Peretz,
Eichenbaum, Feder, Pinsker, Werbel, and Rosenfeld emigrated to Russia,
where they found a wider field for their activities, while others, like
Professor Ludwig Gumplowicz, the sociologist, Marmorek, the physician,
and Scheps, the litterateur, became alienated from their former
coreligionists.]
[Footnote 26: Keneset Yisrael, iii. 84; Gottlober, Za'ar Ba'ale Hayyim,
Zhitomir, 1868: [Hebrew: T'rng Nfshi 'lid Ki] (comp. Ps. xlii, and Shir
ha-Kabod, last verse).]
[Footnote 27: Occident, v. 243. Cf. Buchholtz, op. cit., pp. 82-116.]
[Footnote 28: Occident, v. 255; Yevreyskaya Biblyotyeka, ii. 207-210.]
[Footnote 29: 1840, no. 9.]
[Footnote 30: Emden, Megillat Sefer, p. 5; Guenzburg, Debir, ii. 105-106;
Mandelstamm, op. cit, i. 3-4, 11; Annalen, 1841, no. 31.]
[Footnote 31: FKN, pp. 246-247; Guenzburg, op. cit., i. 48. Moses Reines
also points out the fact that the prominent rabbis did not withhold
their approval of the most typical Haskalah works when their authors
were not suspected of heresy, as shown by Abele's haskamah on
Levinsohn's Te'udah be-Yisrael, Tiktin's on Guenzburg's Toledot ha-Arez,
and Malbim's on Zweifel's Sanegor (Ozar ha-Sifrut, 1888, p. 61).]
[Footnote 32: Ha-Boker Or, 1879, no. 4; FKI, pp. 537-538, 1132;
Ha-Lebanon, 1872, no. 35; Ha-Zefirah, 1879, no. 9; Jewish Chronicle, May
4, 1877; Keneset Yisrael, 1887, pp. 157-162; Ha-Meliz, ix. (1889), nos.
198-199, 201, 232; Jost, op. cit., p. 305. Da'at Kedoshim, St.
Petersburg, 1897, pp. 19, 22, 27.]
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