Azriel Hildesheimer
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Azriel Hildesheimer was a German rabbi and leader of Orthodox Judaism. He is regarded as a pioneering moderniser of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and as a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism.
Photograph of Azriel Hildesheimer
Headshot of Rav Hildesheimer
Street in Jerusalem named after Hildesheimer
Jacob Ettlinger
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Jacob Ettlinger was an Ashkenazi rabbi and author, and one of the leaders of Orthodox Judaism. He is sometimes referred to as the Aruch la-Ner, after his best-known publication.
Azriel Hildesheimer
…Hildesheim, Electorate of Hanover, a city near Hanover. He attended the Hasharat Zvi school in Halberstadt, and, from age seventeen, the yeshiva of Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger in Altona; chacham Isaac Bernays was one of his teachers and his model as a preacher. While studying in yeshiva Hildesheimer also studied classical…
Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger
Tombstone (Matzevah) of Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger, in Hamburg, Germany