Download or read book Samson Raphael Hirsch written by Roland Tasch and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) was one of those personalities without whom any presentation of the development of German Jewry would remain fragmentary. His name is inseparable with that of the secession movement, a new organizational form which severed all ties to the Jewish "Main Community" (Großgemeinde). Hirsch was so eloquent in expressing his ideas, which once again placed festivals and rituals at the center of Jewish life, that he not only influenced the young Gerschom Scholem, but also Franz Rosenzweig's work Star of Redemption.