Between 1743 and 1885 Hebrew was reborn as a language of poetry, fiction and criticism. Slouschz follows the movement from Moses Hayyim Luzzatto in Italy to the Meassefim of Germany, the Galician school and the humanists of Lithuania and Russia, among them Abraham Mapu, whose biblical romances opened a new world to readers of the ghetto.
A foundational history of the Haskalah and modern Hebrew letters, translated by Henrietta Szold. Download the free EPUB.