JWST 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Samson Raphael Hirsch, Abraham Geiger, Neo-Orthodoxy
16 Nov 2016
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The father of neo-orthodoxy was rabbi samson raphael hirsch. Hirsch is associated with the secessionist trend within german jewish. Hirsch was born and raised in hamburg: he witnessed as a child the first clashes in hamburg. 1821- started his studies at the bonn university (moravia: he became a close friend of abraham geiger, left before completing his studies. 1830 appointed as rabbi in oldenburg (germany) and in nikolsburg. 1836- the nineteen letters: fictional correspondence between a reformer (benjamin) and a jew loyal to tradition (naphtali, geiger was very critical of the work, it ended the friendship between them. 1837- horeb: his philosophy of jewish law. Hirsch was attached to german language and culture: he was a patriot of germany. Starting in 1854 some traditionalists in frankfurt tried to re-constitute themselves as a separate community. Hirsch claimed that unity stopped a long time before. The 1847 law on compulsory membership in one community in every city prohibited secession.
