Shmuel Feiner's innovative book recreates the historical
consciousness that fired the Haskalah-the Jewish Enlightenment
movement. The proponents of this movement advocated that Jews
should capture the spirit of the future and take their place in
wider society, but as Jews-without denying their collective
identity and without denying their past. Claiming historical
legitimacy for their ideology and their vision of the future, they
formulated an ethos of modernity that they projected on to the
universal and the Jewish past alike. What was the image of the past
that the maskilim shaped? What tactics underpinned their use of
history? How did their historical awareness change and develop-from
the inception of the Haskalah in Germany at the time of Mendelssohn
and Wessely, through the centres of Haskalah in Austria, Galicia,
and Russia, to the emergence of modern nationalism in the maskilic
circles in eastern Europe in the last third of the nineteenth
century? These are some of the questions raised in this fascinating
exploration of an ideological approach to history which throws a
searching new light on the Jewish Enlightenment movement and the
emergence of Jewish historical consciousness more generally.
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