Maskil

American  

[mahs-keel] / ˈmɑs kil /

noun

Judaism.

plural

Maskilim

1. an advocate or supporter of the Haskalah.

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Other Word Forms

• Maskilic adjective

Etymology

Origin of Maskil

From the Hebrew word maśkīl literally, enlightened

Example Sentences

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 Literature

The Maskil recommenced to write in Hebrew; dealers in produce, to drive out into the country; brokers, to make money; the Sunday market was crowded with peasants, the public-houses filled; salt, naphthaline, and other household wares began to sell.

From Project Gutenberg

It has a Maskil, too, and a real Maskil, one of the old style, of middle age, uneducated and unread, without books, without even a newspaper, in a word a mere pretense at a Maskil.

From Project Gutenberg

To be a Maskil in Tishewitz it is enough only to trim it, but they say "he attends to his hair during the ten Days of Penitence!"

From Project Gutenberg

Our Maskil stops at blacking his boots and wearing a black ribbon round his neck.

From Project Gutenberg