EventAcross the pillars
The Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment
Word reaches Amsterdam of a new movement stirring among the Jewish communities of German lands, one that urges Jews to set aside the isolation of the ghetto and take up the language, dress, and learning of the wider world around them. Our own Jewish merchants and scholars debate whether such openness would enrich this community or simply dissolve it into the surrounding Christian population entirely.
Historical event
- Is
Holland - Date: 1770–1800
- Monthly chance: 10%
Trigger
- Has DLC:
Across the Pillars - The Portuguese Jewish Nation Gained Recognition in AmsterdamHas Variable: d009_amsterdam_jewish_nation
Exact conditions
Burghers gains +10% Estate Satisfaction- +10 towards
Humanist
Exact script
Clergy gains +10% Estate Satisfaction- +10 towards
Spiritualist
Exact script
Requires 2
Countries
- HollandTag
DLCs
- Across the PillarsTrigger
Changes 3
Societal Values
- Spiritualist vs HumanistOption 1, Option 2
References 2
Mentions 2
Religions
JudaismDesc, Name
Religion Groups
ChristianityDesc
Scripting 5
Requires 1
- d009_amsterdam_jewish_nationTrigger
Uses 1
- event_illustration_estate_effectbackground = estate_type:clergy_estate · foreground = estate_type:burghers_estateAs soon as it happens
References 3
- estate_satisfaction_mild_bonusOption 1, Option 2
- societal_value_move_to_leftOption 2
- societal_value_move_to_rightOption 1
type = country_event
title = d009_late_minorities.3.title The Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment
desc = d009_late_minorities.3.desc Word reaches Amsterdam of a new movement stirring among the Jewish communities of German lands, one that urges Jews to set aside the isolation of the ghetto and take up the language, dress, and learning of the wider world around them. Our own Jewish merchants and scholars debate whether such openness would enrich this community or simply dissolve it into the surrounding Christian population entirely.
outcome = neutral
historical_info = d009_late_minorities.3.historical_info Moses Mendelssohn's philosophical writings in Berlin sparked the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, from the 1770s onward, encouraging Jewish communities across Europe to engage with secular philosophy, literature, and civic life alongside religious study. Amsterdam's own Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities were among the first outside German lands to debate its ideas seriously, given the city's already unusually open Jewish intellectual culture.
fire_only_once = yes