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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

Hildesheimer, Esriel. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Rabbis. --- Berlin (Germany) --- Biography. --- Hildesʹhimer, ʻAzriʼel --- Hildesʹhaimer, ʻAzriʼel --- הילדסהיימר, עזריאל --- הילדסהימר, עזריאל

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Since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated-culturally, socially, and politically-into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity have occupied a prominent and contentious place in Jewish legal discourse. This book examines a wide array of legal opinions written by nineteenth- and twentieth-century orthodox rabbis in Europe, the United States, and Israel. It argues that these rabbis' divergent positions-based on the same legal precedents-dem

Conversion --- Responsa --- Jewish law. --- Jews --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Judaism --- Judaism. --- History and criticism. --- Identity. --- History