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Korczak Haskalah and leaping the fence 1 Citation Janusz Korczak's grandfather was an exponent of Haskalah and in that way confronted his Jewish identity. He was a dreamer and man of action as was his grandson Henryk. Hirsh cut off his beard and side locks, took off his caftan for a western suit, and Polish became his mother tongue rather than Yiddish. This aping of the west was reflective of the Jewish young to burst the bonds of what they considered the confining ghetto, what the rabbis considered as fences around the Torah a necessity to saf, technorati.com
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1 Citation By Joel Schalit The irresistible urge to work for justice is a hallmark of Jewish engagement with the modern world. Ever since the Haskalah, a.k.a. the ?Jewish Enlightenment,? began to pry open the gates of European ghettos in the 18th century, Jewish law was pressed into service as an advocate for and witness to change in the ?host? societies that had previously quarantined its Jews. Jewish law had, of course, long influenced secular civil law to uplift the poor and the needy, and to safeguar, technorati.com
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