national-classical

Updated: June 21, 2025

"He was," we are told, "a thorough master of Jewish traditional lore, and at the same time a most advanced thinker, a profound physicist, and an inspired poet; a master of the old school and at the same time the founder of the new school, the national-classical, of Hebrew poetry."

Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin - The Haskalah Movement in Russia