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Page 1
Your name, dear father, will not be found in the following pages, for,
like "the waters of the Siloam that run softly," you ever preferred to
pursue your useful course in unassuming silence. Yet, as it is your
life, devoted entirely to meditating, learning, and teaching, that
inspired me in my effort, I dedicate this book to you; and I am happy to
know that I thus not only dedicate it to one of the noblest of Maskilim,
but at the same time offer you some slight token of the esteem and
affection felt for you by
Your Son,
JACOB S. RAISIN
CONTENTS
PREFACE 11
CHAPTER I. THE PRE-HASKALAH PERIOD 17
CHAPTER II. THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION 53
CHAPTER III. THE DAWN OF HASKALAH 110
CHAPTER IV. CONFLICTS AND CONQUESTS 162
CHAPTER V. RUSSIFICATION, REFORMATION, AND ASSIMILATION 222
CHAPTER VI. THE AWAKENING 268
NOTES 305
BIBLIOGRAPHY 331
INDEX 339
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
TOBIAS COHN (1652-1759) Frontispiece
ISAAC B�R LEVINSOHN (1788-1860) facing page 64
MAX LILIENTHAL (1815-1882) " " 120
ALEXANDER ZEDERBAUM (1816-1893) " " 175
PEREZ BEN MOSHEH SMOLENSKIN (1842-1885) " " 220
MOSES L�B LILIENBLUM (1843-1910) " " 280
PREFACE
To the lover of mankind the history of the Russo-Jewish renaissance is
an encouraging and inspiring phenomenon. Seldom has a people made such
rapid strides forward as the Russian Jews. From the melancholy
regularity that marked their existence a little more than two
generations ago, from the darkness of the Middle Ages in which they were
steeped until the time of Alexander II, they emerged suddenly into the
life and light of the West, and some of the most intrepid devotees of
latter-day culture, both in Europe and in America, have come from among
them. Destitute of everything that makes for enlightenment, and under
the dominion of a Government which sought to extinguish the few
rushlights that scattered the shadows around them, they nevertheless
snatched victory from defeat, sloughed off medieval superstition, and,
disregarding the Dejanira shirt of modern disabilities, compelled their
countrymen to admit more than once that
Tho' I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am!
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