In search of genre : Hebrew enlightenment and modernity /
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Lanham, Md. :
University Press of America,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Haskalah, rebirth of Hebrew letters: revival of Hebrew and the rejuvenation of the Jewish people
- Haskalah in search of genre: beginning of Haskalah and modernity
- Epistolary story: Isaac Euchel's "Igrot Meshulam": the Maskil as a young Jew in search of his identity
- Fable: The phenomena of the fable in Hameʼasef: a fabulous moral for the enlightened
- Satire: Saul Berlin's Ktav Yosher: criticism of traditional Judaism
- Dialogues of the dead: Tuvyah Feder's Kol Meḥazezim: an early Maskilic inner-conflict on the translation of the Hebrew Bible
- Travelogue: Shmuel Romanelli's Masa Baʼrav: a Maskil's 'grand tour' to a Jewry in distress in Morocco
- Autobiography: Mordechai Aharon Günzburg's Aviezer: the process of becoming a Maskil
- The satiric novel: Peretz Smolenskin's Kevurat Ḥamor: Jewish reality as mirrored in a Haskalah satire
- Postscript.