Talk:Haskalah

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I am not sure why someone would be concerned about NPOV in the article. Could you explain your concern? Take a look at the references if you want further backgroumd. --Goodoldpolonius2 14:35, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I presume you're talking to me, because I moaned about POV. The present version is rather biased towards the earlier maskilim and totally ignores later members of the movement who were active in 19th and early 20th-century Poland, Russia and Lithuania. I'm not offering to write it, because it will come out as POV by definition (I consider myself biased). JFW | T@lk 19:53, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This isn't so much a POV issue then, as it is a lack of information issue. I don't know a lot about later haskalah movements, I just rewrote the previous (lacking) article.

Add the detail you want. The only way it would be NPOV is if you said something like "The German Haskalah movement was run by idiots" or something. --Goodoldpolonius2 02:20, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish Emancipation

Should that page simply be a redirect to this one? Rmhermen 00:23, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Authentic Judaism?"

I'm not a big expert on this, but this sounds a bit biased to me:

"Haskalah produced such groups as the Reform movement, which deviated from authentic Judaism with the relaxation of Jewish law which was based on denial of Divinity of Oral Torah in particular.."

Does Wikipedia take the stance that Reform Jews are not authentic Jews? --Jfruh 05:19, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map

This isn't my field, but I found the article fascinating. One question, though - is there a way to incorporate the map *into* the article? The link is a bit awkward. Thanks. 86.29.110.26 00:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)