_4~ The Haskala movement succeeded in inspiring the Jevs in the love of Imowledge and in the mil to search. Un till then the Jews were taught to believe unconditionally, whereas noi they were taught to doubt and to examine before acknowl ed…

to the non-Jew {.that ^as the way they understood the aims of the Haskala - and they wre very disappointed "by the happenings Y/M.Qhoccurred in Russia afterwards). But many went further in their search to solve the Jewish problem and they n…

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-1- October, 11 MOSES HBSS. (1812 - 1875 J Moses Hess was born in Bonn, Germany, In January - 1812* His father, a merchant, was a very othodox Jew and tries to educate him In an orthodox'Jewish way. Hess was greatly influenced by his grandf…

-2placc on the side of the fight for social justice - Socialism. He came into close contact with Marx and Engels and received at that time the nickname iTCommunist Rabbi";. The Government sought to suppress all radical movements, "but the m…

-3- History by Gractz, showed to him that the Jews are a people. But apart from this his philosophic thoughts and the study of the Prophets led him to the conclusion that the Jews are a people. \ Have not the prophets foretold a unity of al…

be "brought to Palestine by this society and settle there. The Jews should he taught to become farmers by experienced teachers and should be employed by the company. But those who are acquainted with agriculture should be granted a tract of…

=5nation, to take part in the spiritual and intellectual warfare going on within the House of Israel, on the one hand, and "between our people and the surrounding civilisation on the other. Por tho' the Jews have lived amongst the nations f…

-6coincides with the istory of" the development of humanity; and the Jews are a nation, which having once acted as Hie leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected with the rest of civilised nations..., "Ho reform of the Jewish…

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-1- PERET2 SMOLENSK!!. ■ Peretz Smolensliin was born in the year 1841, in the small Russian town Monastrychina, that is, at a time when the Haskala movement was in full progress. He was brought up in thecheder, as were most of the Jevjish c…

~2such ad easy thing. The maskil had to he prepared to take up a hitter fight against the orthodox Rabbis and very often his hooks were forhiclden, and the young person who nevertheless dared to read them was punished severely, Peretz Smole…

-3v.rote very well and understood how to influence his readers by his books and articles. Once Smolenskin went to Yienna and lived there for a £#! years, What did he see there? He found a Jewish youth there who knew nothing of the 2,000-yea…

Smolenskin made most vigorous attacks against the Assimilationist point of view generally, and even attacked Moses Mendelsohn "because he interpreted his ideas of Emancipation as "being Assimilati onist (Moses Mendelsohn says that the Jews …

-5and merciless attack on the leaders of the Alliance saying that if one want's something very much it cannot be impossible. Smolenskin, the able writer, Haskala-teaeher and propagater of Palestine colonisation, died rather young in the mid…

sfefcfcfefefefe^XS^ P 1 Xf t % J I } i y y 1 HASHOMER^ H ATZAIR THE YOUNG ATCHMEN DO YOU KNOW? how to use a watch as a compass? DO YOU KNOW? that there are 32 different ways of tying a knot? DO YOU KNOW? how to light a camp-fire and pitch a…