Maskilim
- plural of Maskil.
Example Sentences
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The element of nationality, or distinctiveness, the life-giving and soul-uplifting element in all poetry, as Delitzsch justly maintains it to be, was lacking in the German Maskilim, anxious for naturalization as they were.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
Some Maskilim, emboldened by the interest the Government evinced in their efforts, had resorted to all manner of means to accomplish their object, and frequently allied themselves with the oppressors.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
Fortunately, the indomitable courage of the Maskilim could not be subdued.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
Thus lived and labored the first of the Maskilim, an idealist from beginning to end.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
As their pious coreligionists deemed it the universal duty to be well-versed in the Talmud, so the Maskilim thought it incumbent upon everybody to be highly cultured.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
