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Lot #    7770
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 12:18:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Choreb, oder Versuche ueber Jissroels Pflichten
Title (Hebrew)    in der Zerstreuung,
Author    R. Samson Raphael Hirsch
City    Frankfurt am Main
Publisher    J. Kauffmann
Publication Date    1909
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Frontpiece, XIV, 522 pp., 216:150 mm., usual age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary cloth boards, rubbed and starting.
          
Detailed
Description		    Choreb, oder Versuche ueber Jissroels Pflichten in der Zerstreuung (Horeb - Essays on Israel's "Duties" in the Diaspora) is the second of R. Hirsh's works which were designed for young men and women with a consciousness of Judaism. R. Hirsch laid down his basic views on Judaism which were elaborated and explained in his subsequent writings. The first, Neunzehn Briefe ueber Judentum (Nineteen Letters on Judaism), made a profound impression in German Jewish circles for its brilliant intellectual presentation, in classic German, of Orthodox Judaism. It is written in the form of an exchange of letters between two youths: Benjamin, the spokesman for the "perplexed," who expresses the doubts of a young Jewish intellectual, and Naphtali, the representative of traditional Judaism, who formulates his answers in 18 letters discussing questions concerning the relationship of Judaism to world culture. The second work in identical classic German, this lot, describes the obligations of the individual, the precepts and customs of Orthodox Jews.

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, R. 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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