dark atmosphere of the ghetto

"...and especially Friedrich Schiller, “whose poetry blew like a breath of spring into the depressed, dark atmosphere of the ghetto.” - это из The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature by one Naomi Seidman. познавательная книжка. там же:

Wengeroff ascribes the differences between her engagement and her sister’s to the political climate of the period, which was influenced by “the reform under the government of Nicholas I.” ...the effect of the nascent Russian Haskalah...

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