Hebräische Autorennetzwerke in der Breslauer Haskala. Mordechai Roch (1763–1825) und seine nachgelassene Manuskriptsammlung

Abstract

Abstract While the use of Hebrew was much in decline in most parts of Germany by the end of the eighteenth century, a considerable number of modern Hebrew texts were being published in Breslau with the specific goal of promoting and maintaining the relevance of Hebrew. The article presents a group portrait of the authors who promoted this consolidation of Hebrew study and modern Hebrew writing. It focuses on Mordechai Roch, a lesser-known author whose maskilic activity spanned more than three decades and thus linked the early attempts of the 1790s with a new flowering of Hebrew writing in the 1810s.