In 1783, the Berlin Enlightenment thinker Isaac Euchel published the first modern Hebrew magazine. Modeled on contemporary monthlies of the Enlightenment, Ha-Me'assef (The Collector), published in Germany from 1783 and intermittently until 1797, offered the Jewish Lumières of the 18th century a publishing platform for the dissemination of their reform ideas. Against the backdrop of progressing embourgeoisement and acculturation processes,…