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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Year of Publication: | 2023 |
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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