A Journal Published over the Course of Haskalah: Hame’assef (1783-1811)

Abstract

The Jewish Enlightenment is a movement that had a bearing upon the Western Enlightenment which emerged as a consequence of the Renais-sance and the Reform processes in Europe in the 18th century. This move-ment, that was referred to as Haskalah which means enlightenment in He-brew, fastened on transforming the Jewish communities living in Europe, and integrating them into Europe while bringing forth awareness of reli-gious, cultural and scientific matters for them. Expressing itself especially by the phrase “Hebrew at home, German on the street”, the Haskalah movement, owing to the journal Hame’assef first published in 1783, ob-tained its institutional structure to the accompaniment of a plan that was being carried out in accordance with a number of objectives. The journal which was brought out under different editors’ directorship in different cit-ies through its publishing course contains the most important datum on Haskalah movement. There whilst the subscribers to the journal enable us to see Haskalah proponents named Maskilim and, the content of the journal gives us information about what Haskalah’s positions are, and about the efforts conducted in conformity with those positions. Moreover, the inter-ruptions, the editor changes, the special discrepancies of the content also shed light on prominent aspects of the changing experienced by Haskalah movement.

Keywords

• Haskalah
• Isaac Euchel
• Hame’assef
• Jewish Enlightenment
• Hebrew journal

Haskala Sırasında Yayımlanan Bir Dergi: Ha-Measef (1783-1811)

Abstract

Yahudi Aydınlanması, Rönesans ve Reform hareketlerinin bir sonucu ola-rak XVIII. yüzyılda Avrupa’da meydana gelen Batı Aydınlanması’nın etki-siyle oluşmuş bir harekettir. İbranicede aydınlanma anlamına gelen Has-kala kelimesiyle adlandırılan bu hareket özellikle Avrupa’da yaşayan Ya-hudi topluluklarına dinî, kültürel ve bilimsel açıdan yeni bir bilinç kazan-dırarak Yahudileri dönüştürmeyi ve Avrupa’ya entegre etmeyi amaçlamış-tır. Özellikle “Evde Yahudi, sokakta ise Alman” sloganıyla kendisini ifade eden Haskala hareketi, belli hedefler doğrultusunda yürütülen bir plan eş-liğindeki kurumsallaşmış yapısına 1783 yılında yayın hayatına başlayan ha-Measef dergisi ile kavuşmuştur. Yayın hayatı boyunca farklı editörlerin yönetiminde ayrı şehirlerde yayımlanan dergi, Haskala hareketi ile ilgili en önemli verileri de içerisinde barındırmaktadır. Dergi aboneleri, Maskilim olarak adlandırılan Haskala taraftarlarını görmemizi sağlarken, dergi içe-riği de Haskala fikirlerinin ve bu fikirler doğrultusunda yürütülen çalışma-ların ne olduğu konusunda bizlere bilgiler sunmaktadır. Ayrıca derginin yayın sürecinde yaşadığı fasılalar, editör değişiklikleri ve yayın içeriklerin-deki özel farklılıklar Haskala hareketinin yaşadığı dönüşümlerin öne çıkan yönlerine de ışık tutmaktadır.

Keywords

• Haskala
• Isaac Euchel
• ha-Measef
• Yahudi Aydınlanması
• İbranice dergi

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