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Samson Raphael Hirsch

Samson Raphael Hirsch
Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1888)

Samson Raphael Hirsch was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism.

20 June 1808

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