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If he bashes loudly and vociferously enough, then maybe, just maybe, he will be excused for being a Jew.
The incidents, which started small, spiraled into something big. Something huge.
Jewry is, ever vigilant, ever driven, to preserve its Orthodoxy, to ensure Jewish survival through religious commitment.
Is the incorporation of secular education the death nail to Jewry's survival?
One of the shocking elements of this period is the masterful use of Torah to justify Haskalah ambitions.
: Last installment discussed Moses Mendelssohn, questioning whether he was all that relevant to the modernization and secularization of a significant portion of European Jewry. While he was a noteworthy thinker and writer, it is likely that historians have bloated his influence. However, even if his ideology was not particularly impactful, his persona was. The […]
If his writings did little to sway the masses, it was his life that acted as the heady perfume. His very existence presented an alternative – a highly seductive alternative – to the ghetto Jew.
Amidst this most dramatic period of our 2,000 year exile, this medieval Ashkenazic Jew has somehow retained his sense of purpose, his own internal value, and his unbreakable bond.
Jewish women made their mark in education, welfare for the poor, and care for orphans, sometimes even manipulating public policy.
Even before the Renaissance, the meager scattering of sources that reveal the Italki experience suggest that Jewish influence was alive and well on the peninsula.
Through a series of expulsions, forced conversions and general violence, European Jewry looked eastward, particularly towards Poland and Lithuania for respite.
Turkish Jews and Muslims would flock to her door with bribes or requests for her to exert her influence with the royals.
Power and influence do not come without consequence.
The image of the pious, simple and domestically maternal Jewish woman no longer appealed to these secularly educated girls.
Because of the development of printing, female literacy gained some momentum, and a whole genre of women's Yiddish books was created.
There is evidence that learned women were educated by tutors as well, as long as standards of modesty were upheld.
July 10, 2026 
