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It was the Slavonic Maskilim who mastered Hebrew in its purity, as it had not been mastered since the day of Judah Halevi.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.

Costume, Jewish, origin of, 115;   opposition of Maskilim to, 166, 175;   Friedländer opposes, 170;   enforced change of, by Government, 179;   in Courland, 194.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.

It has accomplished, in a measure, the fond hope of the Maskilim and awakened within the Russian Jew a feeling of self-respect and a "consciousness of human worth."

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.

Isaac Bär Levinsohn, 1788-1860 Time was when all writers on the subject, usually Maskilim, thought it their duty to cast a stone at Hasidism.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.

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 Raisin, Jacob S.