Mitnaggedim

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of Mitnagged.
  Mitnagged

  noun

  a member of an Orthodox Jewish movement in central or eastern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries that advocated an intellectual, legalistic approach to Judaism and opposed the emotional, mystical approach of the Hasidim.

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Mitnaggedim

Intermarriage, social intercourse of any kind, was prohibited between Hasidim and Mitnaggedim.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin

Hasidim and Mitnaggedim discovered that while they were fighting each other, a common enemy was undermining the ground on which they stood.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin

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

Previous to the latter part of the reign of Alexander I the "struggle groups" in Russian Jewry were at first Frankists and anti-Frankists, and afterwards Hasidim and Mitnaggedim.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin

Mitnaggedim, opposition to Hasidism, 70, 131;   efforts of, at reconciliation with Hasidim, 120-121;   make common cause with Hasidim against Maskilim, 134, 260.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin

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