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Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the creation of a modern Jewish orthodoxy
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ISBN: 0585275939 9780585275932 9780817381844 0817381848 0817304851 9780817304850 9780817312725 0817312722 Year: 1990 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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Abstract

The story of modern Orthodox Judaism is usually told only from the perspective of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Ellenson's work, a thorough examination of the life and work of one of Hirsch's contemporaries, Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer, reveals another important contributor to the creation of a modern Jewish Orthodoxy during the late 1800's. like Hirsch, Hildesheirmer felt the need to continue certain traditions while at the same time introducing certain innovations to meet the demands of a modern society. This original study of an Orthodox rabbinic leader shows how Hildesheirmer's flexib

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