PREFIX cc: PREFIX dc: PREFIX dcat: PREFIX dct: PREFIX dcterms: PREFIX dqv: PREFIX edm: PREFIX foaf: PREFIX geo: PREFIX geosparql: PREFIX gndo: PREFIX jl: PREFIX jld: PREFIX jlo: PREFIX ns1: PREFIX oa: PREFIX owl: PREFIX prov: PREFIX rdf: PREFIX rdfs: PREFIX schema: PREFIX skos: PREFIX spdx: PREFIX void: PREFIX wd: PREFIX xml: PREFIX xsd: rdf:type foaf:Person; jlo:describedAt ; jlo:hasAbstract "(1815–1882), German rabbi, born and educated in Munich; famous for establishing modern schools for Jews in the Russian Empire. In 1839, Ludwig Phillipson, a moderate reforming rabbi and editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, recommended Lilienthal to serve as rabbi and teacher in the largely German-speaking Jewish community of Riga. Lilienthal’s role in establishing a modern school for Jewish children there came to the attention of the minister of education of the Russian Empire, Count Sergei S. Uvarov, who hired him in 1841 to serve as special adviser for Jewish affairs. Lilienthal’s mission was to replicate his Riga school throughout the Pale of Settlement, as part of Uvarov’s plan to “enlighten” the Jews of Russia by weaning them away from conventional Talmudic learning, introducing them to secular studies, and training them to become artisans. Although viewed traditionally as a malignant scheme aimed at converting Jews to Russian Orthodoxy, recent scholarship has argued that Uvarov’s plan was not, in fact, aimed at proselytizing, but was a small part of his overall goal to introduce Western-style and classical education throughout the Russian Empire. This plan, however, faced severe opposition from some top governmental authorities in Russia, and in many ways contradicted the basic ideology of Tsar Nicholas I, for whose regime Uvarov was a major theoretician, and which emphasized autocracy, Russian Orthodoxy, and Russian nationalism. "@en; jlo:title "Lilienthal, Max"; owl:sameAs wd:Q75286; skos:altLabel "Max Lilienthal"; skos:prefLabel "Lilienthal, Max"; skos:related , , , , .