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
Ha-ha-ha!" laughs the Maskil loudly and thickly, "you can get the Tishewitz donkeys to believe that, but you won't get me!
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb
They might have condemned a Maskil, they had not yet condemned Haskalah.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
He committed the anachronism of transporting the humanist ideas of the Lithuanian Maskil to the period of Isaiah.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum
It is because I regard him as the greatest Maskil of his time that I have dwelt on Maimon at such length.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
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