Maskil
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Origin of Maskil
From the Hebrew word maśkīl literally, enlightened
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He came under the influence of a Maskil in Odessa and went away to France where he became a great mathematician and taught in a university.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
They might have condemned a Maskil, they had not yet condemned Haskalah.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
It is true that the Maskil dogged my footsteps, but he had become antipathetic to me, and I couldn't look at him.
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb
"Well, well," says the Maskil, more gently, "let us have the rest!"
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb
The upliftment of the masses was the beau-ideal of every Maskil, and Hebrew and even the much-despised Yiddish were employed to effect it.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
This exclamation of Doctor Hurwitz19 found an echo in the works of the other Maskilim that wrote in Hebrew, but more especially of those who used a European language.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
Graetz and his followers among the latter-day Maskilim delighted in calling them "they that walk in darkness."
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
The struggle between these anti-Maskilim and the Maskilim had ceased in the golden days of Alexander II.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
This is the distinguishing feature between the German and Slavonic Maskilim during the eighteenth century.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
The early German Maskilim, in trying to escape the Scylla of Rabbinism, fell victims to the Charybdis of Germanism.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
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