Maskil
noun
an advocate or supporter of the Haskalah.
Maskilim
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pluralof Maskil.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The struggle between Hasidim and Mitnaggedim ended with the conversionist policy of Nicholas I, which united them against the Maskilim.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin
Hasidim, 65; their teachings, 66, 67, 150; spread, 69; persecuted by the Mitnaggedim, 76, 131; efforts at reconciliation with Mitnaggedim, 120-121, 260; reformed, 122; united with Mitnaggedim against Haskalah, 134; fought by Maskilim, 168.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin
What the early Maskilim had only dreamed of finally came to be.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin
All these Maskilim, so many hands reaching out into the light, were both the cause and the consequence of the longing for enlightenment characteristic at all times of the Slavonic Jew.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin
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 Jacob S. Raisin
