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KROCHMAL, NAHMAN (1785–1840)

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KROCHMAL, NAHMAN (1785–1840) , Jewish See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Brody in See also:Galicia in 1785. He was one of the pioneers in the revival of Jewish learning which followed on the See also:age of See also:Moses Mendelssohn. His See also:chief See also:work was the Moreh Nebuche hazeman (" See also:Guide for the Perplexed of the Age "), a See also:title imitated from that of the 12th-See also:century " Guide for the Perplexed " of See also:Maimonides (q.v.). This See also:book was not published till after the author's See also:death, when it was edited by See also:Zunz (1851). The book is a See also:philosophy of Jewish See also:history, and has a See also:double importance. On the one See also:side it was a See also:critical examination of the Rabbinic literature and much influenced subsequent investigators. On the other side, Krochmal, in the words of N. Slouschz, " was the first Jewish scholar who views Judaism, not as a distinct and See also:independent entity, but as a See also:part of the whole of See also:civilization." Krochmal, under Hegelian influences, regarded the See also:nationality of See also:Israel as consisting in its religious See also:genius, its spiritual gifts. Thus Krochmal may be called the originator of the See also:idea of the See also:mission of the Jewish See also:people, " cultural See also:Zionism " as it has more recently been termed. He died at See also:Tarnopol in 1840. See S. Schechter, Studies in Judaism (1896), pp.

56 seq.; N. Slouschz, Renascence of See also:

Hebrew Literature (1909), pp. 63 seq. (I.

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