Library of Haskala

The books of the Jewish Enlightenment: 525 books in German and Hebrew, printed 1754–1813, identified by leading scholars as Haskala literature, with the 1,980 people who wrote, translated, printed, funded or are mentioned in them.

• Books 525

  From A to Z and from א to ת, with every field of the database.

• Digital books 69

  Books with a link to a digitised copy.

• People 1,980

  Authors, translators, printers, subscribers and others.

• Places 312

  Where the books were printed, with a map.

• Topics 118

  And all other vocabularies of the database.

Tag cloud by topics

• Apologetics 12
• Astronomy 30
• Bible 53
• Central historical figures 19
• Education 22
• Emancipation 27
• General knowledge 12
• Hebrew 74
• Important personalities in Jewish culture 24
• Kabbala 18
• Morals 79
• Natural history (zoology/botany/mineralogy) 13
• Optics 15
• Patriotism 57
• Philosophy 40
• Religious beliefs 71
• Religious rites 20
• Religious tolerance/ intolerance 14
• Study of Languages 29
• Talmud 15
• Translation 23
• Wars 16
• World history 16

All 118 topics · all vocabularies

About the Library

This database contains 525 books in German and Hebrew identified by leading scholars as Haskala literature. The database is hosted and run by the Judaica Division of the Frankfurt University Library.

The detailed bio-bibliographical information, presented here for the first time, was collected as result of a collaborative research, headed by Profs. Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University; Zohar Shavit, Tel Aviv University and Christoph Schulte, Universität Potsdam within a joint German-Israeli Research Project in 2004-2010.

Please note: for every book title only those fields containing information are presented.

Contact today: the FID Jewish Studies at the Frankfurt University Library, which runs JudaicaLink. Please share any further information.

This is the Library of Haskala as a static showcase of JudaicaLink, made from the open data that JudaicaLink published from the database of the original site (haskala-library.net, offline since 2025). Every page of the old site has its counterpart here, at the same path below /haskala/. More about this site and the data.