These are the Fables of Hame’asef: The Way of the Modern Fable at the Early Hebrew Haskalah

דרן המשל המודרני בראשיתה של ההשכלה העברית: ללמוד מוסר השכל במשל ומליצה

Abstract

The fable was one of the most popular genre of the European Enlightenment as well as of the Hebrew Haskalah. Many fables were published in Hameasef, the first modern Hebrew journal (1783-1811) that opens the period of modern Hebrew literature. The fables published during the early period of Haskalah in Germany were recycled in textbooks and other publications. Some of them were original, but most of them were adaptations of the classical Aesopian fables or their Jewish equivalent, Mishlei Shualim by Berachyah Hanakdan.

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Document Type

Paper

Volume

40

Issue

1

Publication Title

Hebrew Studies

First Page

169

Last Page

189

ISSN

0146-4094



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