50. The Haskalah Reconsidered | Dr. Olga Litvak

J.J. and Dr. Olga Litvak take the express from Berlin to Eastern Europe in search of the real Jewish enlightenment.

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Olga Litvak is the Roth Professor of Modern European Jewish History at Cornell University. The author of Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry (2006) and Haskalah: The Romantic Movement in Judaism (2012), she is currently working on a book about M. L. Lilienblum and the origins of Zionism in late imperial Russia.