>Kochvei Yitzhak: The Journal of the Haskalah in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1845–1873)
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Year:
2016
Catalog number :
45-371021
ISBN:
978-965-493-990-4
Pages:
629
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Weight:
1600 gr.

Kochvei Yitzhak: The Journal of the Haskalah in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1845–1873)

A Monograph and Annotated Index to 'Kochvei Yitzhak'

Synopsis
Kochvei Yitzhak, The Hebrew Journal of the Haskalah in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1845–1873), is a monograph and an annotated index, covering the literary belles lettres and scholarly articles published in that periodical. It discusses and analyzes the various authors who contributed to the journal, in the context of the times and the needs of the Jewish community in Europe, following the ideology of the Haskalah (Enlightenment) in improving Jewish education, fostering the ideals of humanism and advocating the purity of Judaism and its practices. 
This is the sixth book in the series of monographs and annotated indices of periodicals of the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment).