Maskil

Maskil

Maskil (Hebrew: מַשְׂכִּיל‎, plural maskilim):

  • A Hebrew literary musical term occurring in the heading of some psalms.
  • Title of honor, meaning "scholar" or "enlightened man," used by Isaac Israeli ben Joseph in the 14th century to refer to his Italian Jewish colleagues.
  • Leaders of the Haskalah movement, the European Jewish enlightenment between the 1770s and 1880s, who sought to reeducate Jews so that they could fit into modern society; they established schools and published works of cultural importance.[1]

References

  1. ^ Hershel Edelheit and Abraham J. Edelheit, History of Zionism: A Handbook and Dictionary, Westview Press, (2000), p 17

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