Shaping the Jewish Enlightenment : : Solomon Dubno (1738–1813), an Eastern European Maskil /

Shaping the Jewish Enlightenment : : Solomon Dubno (1738–1813), an Eastern European Maskil / / Zuzanna Krzemień; ed. by Noëmie Duhaut, Wojciech Tworek.

Drawing from diverse multilingual sources, Krzemień delves into Solomon Dubno's life (1738–1813), unraveling complexities of the Haskalah movement's ties to Eastern European Jewish culture. Dubno, a devout Polish Jew and adept Hebrew grammarian, played a pivotal role in Moses Mendelssohn&#...

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VerfasserIn:
Krzemień, Zuzanna,
MitwirkendeR:
Biesaga, Monika,
HerausgeberIn:
Duhaut, Noëmie,
Tworek, Wojciech,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Jews of Poland
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note from the Editors
  • Preface: Zuzanna Krzemień at University College London
  • A Note on the Presentation of Source Materials
  • Introduction
  • Eastern European participation in the Jewish Enlightenment: the lessons of one life
  • A Jewish scholar’s life between Volhynia, Berlin, and Amsterdam
  • Re-orientations: the scope and limits of Jewish intellectual transformation in the Age of Enlightenment
  • Dubno, Hebrew literature, and the Haskalah
  • Chapter outline
  • 1. Solomon Dubno’s Booklists
  • Introduction
  • Book collecting in early modern times
  • The content of Solomon Dubno’s library
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Dubno and the Biur Project
  • The publication of the Biur
  • The conflict between Mendelssohn and Dubno
  • Dubno’s role in the publication of the Biur
  • The authorship of Alim li-terufah
  • The Biur and the Jewish tradition of biblical textual criticism
  • The Biur as a debate with Christianity
  • The reaction to the publication of the Biur
  • Speculations regarding Dubno’s withdrawal from the Biur project
  • Dubno’s own Pentateuch edition
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Dubno and the Renewal of Hebrew Language
  • The study of Hebrew grammar among Ashkenazi Jewry
  • Dubno’s views on Hebrew grammar
  • The status of the Hebrew language in the maskilic community
  • Enlightenment thinkers’ views on language
  • Dubno’s belief in the divine nature of Hebrew
  • Dubno’s view of the German Pentateuch translation
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Dubno’s Poetry and Belles Lettres
  • Introduction
  • Maskilic Hebrew poetry in the eighteenth century
  • “Yuval ve-Na’aman”
  • Dubno’s poetry
  • Works wrongly attributed to Dubno
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix
  • Se’u enekhem
  • Shir kashur min me’ah yetedot
  • Shir na’eh al midat ha-ḥanupah
  • Index

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