Haskalah and History – The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness

Note on transliteration and conventions used in the text Introduction: 'Haskalah' and 'History' 1 From Traditional History to Maskilic History in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany An Enlightened Avant-Garde * The Legitimization of Traditional History * The 'Judgement of Reason': Legitimizations for a New History * Rationalistic, Realistic, and Moralistic History * The Modern Period in the Maskilic Picture of the Past * The Pantheon of Historical Heroes * The Dissemination of Maskilic History in the Early Nineteenth Century 2The Manipulation of History in Nineteenth-Century Galicia The Galician Maskilim * The Unfolding of Maskilic History * A Natural History of Hasidism * Nahman Krochmal: The Middle-f-the-Road Maskil * Wissenschaft des Judentums in Galicia * The Struggle for Freedom of Thought * Iconoclasm: Attitudes to Religious Reform 3Optimism under Oppression: Maskilic History in Russia, 1825-1855 The Idea Yearned to be Realized * A universal History for a Modern Era * The Maskilic Chain of Tradition * The Use of History in Maskilic Propaganda * Political History and Moral History 4Reaching the Masses: The Dissemination of Maskilic History The Channels of Distribution * Optimistic and Patriotic History * Scientifc Knowledge of the Past * The Autobiography of the Haskalah Movement * Abraham Mapu and the Popularization of Maskilic History * Heroics and Sacred memories in Popular Historical Fiction * Improvement of the Masses: History in Yiddish * Kalman Schulman: The First Professional Popularizer 5Maskilic History in Crisis The Radical Haskalah: A Loss of Optimism * The Anticlerical Struggle * The Historical Vindication of Hasidism * From 'Maskilic HistoryA" to 'National History' Conclusion: New Directions Gloassary Bibliography Index