Secular Haskala
Jewish Brothers in Conflict
Item #: 0437
The Age of Enlightenment toppled the authority of the Church, and the haskala did the same in the Jewish world. Promoting itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, the haskala advocated destruction of the old customs and the adoption of a new secular culture. This created a disastrous rift between religious and secular Jews that continues to play itself out in the current generation and in the modern State of Israel.

