The Hamburg Temple disputes were the two controversies which erupted around the Israelite Temple in Hamburg, the first permanent Reform synagogue, which elicited fierce protests from Orthodox rabbis.
The Jacobson Temple (right), Seesen
The Palais Itzig, where Jacobson held his first service in Berlin.
A segment of the 1818 Hamburg prayerbook. Stating "accept the uttering of our lips instead of our obligatory sacrifices" and omitting the traditional "O gather our dispersions... Conduct us unto Zion" passage.
The Hamburg Temple in its original edifice, at the Brunnenstraße
Samuel Holdheim was a German rabbi and author, and one of the more radical leaders of the early Reform Movement in Judaism. A pioneer in modern Jewish homiletics, he was often at odds with the Orthodo
Holdheim in his later years