Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (born 1808)

Samson Raphael Hirsch

19th century German Jewish theologian

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…