''Ha-Karmel'' () was a

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

periodical, edited and published by

Samuel Joseph Fuenn Samuel Joseph Fuenn (; 15 October 1818 – 11 January 1891), also known as Rashi Fuenn () and Rashif (), was a Lithuanian Hebrew writer, scholar, printer, and editor. He was a leading figure of the eastern European Haskalah, and an early member of ...

Vilna Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urba ...

from 1860 to 1880. It was one of the important forces of the

Haskalah The ''Haskalah'', often termed Jewish Enlightenment ( he, השכלה; literally, "wisdom", "erudition" or "education"), was an intellectual movement among the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, with a certain influence on those in Western Euro ...

movement in the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War ...

History

''Ha-Karmel'' was founded by

in 1860 as a weekly, and was continued as such (with some interruptions) until 1871. Eight volumes appeared in these eleven years, of which volumes 1–3 have supplements in Russian. It then became a monthly, of which four volumes appeared from 1871 to 1880, when the publication was suspended. was associated with Fuenn in the editorship.''Letters of J. L. Gordon'', no. 87, Warsaw, 1894. later assisted Fuenn in the same capacity. ''Ha-Karmel'' was more of a literary periodical and less of a newspaper than other Hebrew contemporaries like '' Ha-Maggid'' or '' Ha-Melitz'', in part because the license granted by the Tsarist regime prohibited Fuenn from publishing articles on politics. The periodical contained poetry, translations, historical material, literary criticism, Torah scholarship, and book reviews.

Notable contributors

* Reuben Asher Braudes *

Judah Leib Gordon Judah Leib (Ben Asher) Gordon, also known as Leon Gordon, (December 7, 1830, Vilnius, Lithuania – September 16, 1892, St. Petersburg, Russia) (Hebrew: יהודה לייב גורדון) was among the most important Hebrew poets of the Jewish En ...

* Avrom Ber Gotlober *

Isaac Kaminer Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer (, ''Yitsḥak ben Avraham Kaminer''; 1834 – 30 March 1901) was a Russian Empire Jewish Hebrew-language poet, satirist, and physician. Biography Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer was born in May 1834 in Levkiev in right-ban ...

References

External links

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