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Frankly Forgotten: Benjamin Franklin’s Contribution to Musar/Forget Franklin: Franklin and the Musar Movement
- Author(s):
- Shai Afsai (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Subject(s):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, American Revolution (United States , Musar movement, Eastern Europe, Haskalah, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish literature, American literature, Autobiography, Moral education
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- american history, Art of Virtue, autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Deism, Eastern Europe, Haskalah, Hebrew literature, Judaism, rabbinic literature
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/b9zp-k071
- Abstract:
- Benjamin Franklin worked hard to refine his character, but it took a Polish rabbi to turn the founding father’s method into a book. This volume became one of the texts used by the Lithuanian Musar movement – but its origins have been consistently overlooked. Leading members of the Lithuanian Musar movement loved Rabbi Menahem Mendel Lefin of Satanów’s method of character refinement. But did they know where it came from?
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- Published as:
- Magazine section
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 months ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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