A playlist from The Jewish Story
Hasidim, Enlighteners and Reformers
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A Light Out of Darkness
September 1, 2018 · 55 min · Episode page →
The institutions of the middle ages have already run their course, and the way ahead into modernity is far from clear for Polish Jewry. Out of this darkness...
About this playlist
Eastern and Western Jewry meet modernity: the rise of Hasidism and its opponents, Mendelssohn and the Berlin Enlightenment, Napoleon and emancipation, and the birth of Jewish scholarship.
Where this sits in the story
1736–1880 · 1 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
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