In Search of Genre Hebrew Enlightenment and

In Search of Genre is an innovative study of the beginning of modernity in Hebrew and Jewish letters, which reflected the emerging changes in Jewish society toward the end of the 18th century in Germany.

Introduction : Haskalah - rebirth of Hebrew letters : revival of Hebrew and the rejuvenation of the Jewish people	p. 11
Haskalah in search of genre : beginning of Haskalah and modernity	p. 33
Epistolary story : Isaac Euchel's "Igrot Meshulam" - the Maskil as a young Jew in search of his identity	p. 83
Fable : the phenomena of the fable in Hame'asef - a fabulous moral for the enlightened	p. 119
Satire : Saul Berlin's Ktav Yosher - criticism of traditional Judaism	p. 151
Dialogues of the dead : Tuvyah Feder's Kol Mehazezim - an earthly Maskilic inner-conflict on the translation of the Hebrew Bible	p. 213
Travelogue : Shmuel Romanelli's Masa Ba'rav - a Maskil's 'grand tour' to a Jewry in distress in Morocco	p. 245
Autobiography : Mordechai Ahron Gunzburg's Aviezer - the process of becoming a Maskil	p. 269
The satiric novel : Peretz Smolenskin's Kevurat Hamor - Jewish reality as mirrored in a Haskalah satire	p. 303
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In Search of Genre Hebrew Enlightenment and Modernity

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