»Books are printed here which nobody will ever read«

This review is a by-product of a lengthy study, still in progress, entitled »›Books are printed here which nobody will ever read‹: The Occupation of the Haskalah Movement in Germany by Jewish-Nationalist historiography«. The declared immediate goal of this occupation has been the magnification of a short-lived literary venture which barely left traces of itself, a development best exemplified in the words of the major figure in this venture, Prof. Shmuel Feiner of Maaleh Adumim, who has declared that the impact of the Haskalah movement on the history of modern Jewry can be considered equivalent to that of the French Revolution, such as in the very opening paragraph of his acclaimed work, The Jewish Enlightenment (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, translated by Chaya Naor), p. 1: