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Lot #    7506
Auction End Date    7/13/2004 10:14:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Samson Raphael Hirsch
Title (Hebrew)    ëúá îä'ø ùîùåï øôàì äéøù
Author    [Ms.]
City    Oldenburg
Publication Date    1838
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description		    [1] p., 321:198 mm., ink on paper, light age staining, neat script, signed and dated.
          
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Description		    R. Samson b. Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888) was the leader and foremost exponent of Orthodoxy in Germany in the 19th century. Born in Hamburg, Hirsch studied Talmud there with his grandfather R. Mendel Frankfurter. His education was also influenced by rabbis Jacob Ettlinger and Isaac Bernays, and by his father, R. Raphael (who had changed his surname from Frankfurter to Hirsch). R. Hirsch's importance as a religious spiritual leader, his wide influence as a preacher and teacher, organizer and writer, made him a dedicated champion of Orthodoxy in its controversy with the Reform-liberal Judaism. While advocating strict adherence to halakhah, Hirsch tried to find a solution to the political and cultural challenges presented in modern life to Judaism. He considered his view of Judaism not as a system of philosophical speculation but as an explication of the Sinaitic revelation. Despite widespread opposition to his ideas from many circles in German Jewry his personal qualities won their respect and admiration. Reference Description EJ; Grunfeld (ed. and tr.), in: S. R. Hirsch, Horeb - Essays on Israel's Duties in the Diaspora (1962), xviii–clxii; idem, Three Generations: The Influence of Samson Raphael Hirsch on Jewish Life and Thought (1958), incl. extensive bibliography; idem (ed.), in: S. R. Hirsch, Judaism Eternal, 1 (1959), xlix–lxi (a complete list of Hirsch's publications); N. H. Rosenbloom, Tradition in an Age of Reform: the Religious Philosophy of Samson Raphael Hirsch (1976); J. Rosenheim, Samson Raphael Hirsch's Cultural Ideal and Our Times (1951).
          
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Language:    German
  
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