
HoP 170 - Gad Freudenthal on Jewish Philosophy and Science
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The History of Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe
Haskala was printed in 1743 near Berlin. Rabbi David Frankel, who was to be most of the Middle-son's teacher, printed it that year. And this really signaled the beginning of the Jewish enlightenment called Haskala in Hebrew. It is printed one time in the middle of the 16th century if I remember correctly and then never again. The guy of the public is new to no study at all. With this printing of my monitors in 1743 David Frankel got the Haskala into rolling. That means that this episode of the Jewish philosophy in Hebrew in the Middle Ages was the starting point for the interest in philosophy among Jews in the early modern period.
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