Brief overview of the history of the Jews in the 18th and early 19th century, with emphasis on intellectual and religious developments in the Russian Empire and Germany: the rise of Hasidism, the Mitnagdic reaction, and the impact of the Haskalah. Part VIII of the I Survived Jewish History Series.

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