Shaping the Jewish Enlightenment

Solomon Dubno (1738-1813), and Eastern European Maskil

In memoriam Zuzanna Krzemień

13 November 2024, 7 pm

Foyle Suite,

British Library, Euston Road

Solomon Dubno, best known as contributor to Moses Mendelssohn’s German translation of and commentary on the Hebrew Pentateuch, represents the Jewish Enlightenment in an east European key: Born in today’s Belarus, Dubno excelled as a grammarian and author and advocated Hebrew literacy and a rejuvenation of Hebrew belleslettres for the educated Jewish reading public. In contrast to Mendelssohn, the rapprochement between Jews and non-Jews was of less relevance.

The speakers of this event, scholars of Eastern European Jewish culture and of the Jewish Enlightenment, will pay tribute to the scholarly achievement of Zuzanna Krzemień, author of this study and cataloguer at the British Library, who passed away in 2021.

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