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Haskalah

Haskalah proper noun: the Jewish Enlightenment, an Enlightenment movement among European Jewry.

Proper noun

the Haskalah

  1. The Jewish Enlightenment, an Enlightenment movement among European Jewry.

Origin of Haskalah

Borrowed from Hebrew הַשְׂכָּלָה.

Words formed from Haskalah

Questions about Haskalah

What does Haskalah mean?
Haskalah means the Jewish Enlightenment, an Enlightenment movement among European Jewry.
What part of speech is Haskalah?
Haskalah is a proper noun.

Words near Haskalah in the dictionary

  1. Hasidism
  2. Hasids
  3. Hasina
  4. Hasinai
  5. hask
  6. Haskalah
  7. Haskalic
  8. haskap
  9. haskaps
  10. Haske
  11. Haskell

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