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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR |
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HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL (r8o8-1888) , Jewish theologian, was born in Hamburg in 18o8 and died at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1888. He opposed the reform tendency of Geiger (q.v.), and presented Jewish orthodoxy in a new and attractive light. His philosophical conception of tradition, associated as it was with conservatism in ritual practice, created what is often known as the Frankfort " Neo-Orthodoxy." Hirsch exercised a profound influence on the Synagogue
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was born in Kufa, but spent much of his life
Large extracts from another of his works, the Kitab ul-Asnam, are contained in the Khizanat ul-Adab (iii. 242-246) and in the geography of Yaqut (q.v.). These latter have been translated with comments by J. Wellhausen in his Reste des arabischen Heidentums (2nd ed., Berlin, 1897). (G. W. T.) End of Article: HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL (r8o8-1888) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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