Mapu

Upon receiving an original piece of her writing, Mapu replied with many thanks and compliments to the “maskelet, who speaks so lucidly.”

Miriam Markel-Mosessohn. 2009

“A woman of great intellect will neglect her home,” Mapu stated in concern.

Haskalah Attitudes Toward Women. 2009

By doing so, he merely added his conservative opinion to that of the man considered the founding father of the Russian Haskalah, Isaac Baer Levinsohn (1788 – 1860), who in the 1860s wrote sharply against equality in education for women, saying that it could bring down the foundations of homemaking (Mapu, Letters, 185 – 189).

Haskalah Attitudes Toward Women. 2009

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Dreamy, guileless, ignorant of the actual and complicated phenomena of modern life, Mapu was able to identify himself with the times of the prophets so well that he confounded them with modern times.

The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

Guided by prophetic intuition, Mapu accomplished a task making for morality and culture.

The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

His remarkable studies of Mapu, Smolenskin, and other writers, are conceived and executed according to the approved methods of modern critics.

The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

Mapu was on the point of succumbing, like so many others, the darkness of mysticism was about to drop like a pall upon his mind, when something happened, insignificant in itself, but important through its consequences, and he was snatched out of danger.

The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

Zionist sentiments of a Mapu had planted a germinating seed in the heart of traditional Judaism itself.

The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

Being a sickly child, Mapu did not begin to study the elementary branches until he was five years old, an advanced age among people whose children were usually sent to the

The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919