The research project on Galician & Bukovinian Jewry The University of Haifa In collaboration with the Jewish Galicia & Bukovina Organization

 The 5th international conference for the research of Jewish enlightenment (Haskala) was held in Jerusalem on December 22-25, 2013

 The conference focused this year on the 200 year anniversary of the first vesion of the book " Revealers of Secrets" and the foundation of Haskala in Galicia

Some of the main speakers in the conference are also members in the researchers seminar in Haifa University

The topics in the conference were:

            a. History of the movement.
            b. Literature.
            c. 'Wissenschaft des Judentums'.
            d. Education.
            e. Languages.
            f. Ideology, religious teachings, nationalism.
            g. Haskalah and Hasidism.
            h. Personalities.
            i. Historiography.
            j. Jewish society in its non-Jewish context.
            k. Between ‘East’ and ‘West’.
            l. The uniqueness of the Galician Haskalah and its legacy.

Information and lectures (Hebrew)