@inbook{210dc02d2aa74708b8e7219b1199e73c,
title = "Enlightened Rabbis as Reformers in Russian Jewish Society",
abstract = "This chapter focuses on the rabbis in Russia in the 1860s and 1870s who, with a measure of enlightenment, aspired to reform Jewish society. In this period, the gap between maskilim and traditional Jews was not as wide as is usually thought. The chapter then cautions against a simple dualistic view of the relationship between Haskalah and tradition, describing a group of Lithuanian rabbis who were involved in demands for reform in the spirit of an Enlightenment which turned Zionist in the 1880s. Like the moderate maskilim in eastern Europe, these rabbis tried to fuse Enlightenment and tradition. Ultimately, they can be regarded as the source of modern Orthodoxy in Israel and the United States.",
author = "Yosef Salmon",
year = "2001",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3828/liverpool/9781874774617.003.0011",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781904113263",
series = "The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series",
publisher = "Liverpool University Press",
pages = "166--183",
editor = "Shmuel Feiner and David Sorkin",
booktitle = "New Perspectives on the Haskalah",
address = "United Kingdom",
}