Flashcards: Haskalah

Markus Herz (also Marcus Herz; January 17, 1747 – January 19, 1803) was a German Jewish physician and lecturer on philosophy.

Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.

Max Lilienthal (November 6, 1815 – April 6, 1882) was a German-born adviser for the reform of Jewish schools in Russia and later a rabbi and proponent of Reform Judaism in the United States.

Nachman HaKohen Krochmal (born in Brody, Galicia, on 17 February 1785; died at Ternopil on 31 July 1840) was a Jewish Galician philosopher, theologian, and historian.

Abraham Kohn (June 13, 1806 in Zalužany, Bohemia – September 7, 1848 at Lemberg, Galicia) was the liberal Chief Rabbi of Lemberg, and was poisoned to death.

Salomon Maimon (/ˈmaɪmɒn/; German: [ˈmaɪmoːn]; Hebrew: שלמה מימון‎‎‎; 1753 – 22 November 1800) was a German-speaking philosopher, born of Jewish parentage in present-day Belarus.

Julius Fürst (German: [fʏɐ̯st]; 12 May 1805, Żerków, South Prussia – 9 February 1873, Leipzig), was a Jewish German orientalist.

Joel Löwe (born in 1760; died Breslau, February 11, 1802) was a German-Jewish Biblical commentator.

Aron Freimann (5 August 1871 at Filehne, Posen – 6 June 1948 at New York City) was a German librarian and historian.

Isaac Abraham Euchel (Hebrew: יצחק אייכל‎‎; born at Copenhagen, October 17, 1756; died at Berlin, June 14, 1804) was a Hebrew author and founder of the "Haskalah-movement".

Menachem Mendel Lefin (also Menahem Mendel Levin) (1749–1826) was an early leader of the Haskalah movement.

Moses Gaster (17 September 1856 – 5 March 1939) was a Romanian-born British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist.

Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn (1754 or 1756, in probably Halle – 20 March 1835, in Fürth) was a German Jew, a translator and commentator of the Tanakh and a leading writer of the Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment).

Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people from the formation of the Jewish nation in biblical times through life in the diaspora and the state of Israel.

Joseph Perl (also Josef Perl; November 10, 1773, Ternopil – October 1, 1839, Ternopil), was an Ashkenazi Jewish educator and writer, a scion of the Haskalah or Jewish Enlightenment.

David Friedrichsfeld (c. 1755 – February 19, 1810) was a German-Jewish writer in German and Hebrew.