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 ph
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
Hirsch in Oldenburg (1830–1841). The wig instead of a hat has been seen as an attempt to satisfy both Jewish religious requirements and secular fashion.
The Frankfurt school Hirsch founded as "Realschule und Lyzeum der Israelitischen Religionsgesellschaft" in 1853 was renamed Samson-Raphael-Hirsch-Schule in 1928.
Torah im Derech Eretz is a phrase common in Rabbinic literature referring to various aspects of one's interaction with the wider world. The term also refers to a philosophy of Orthodox Judaism articul
Samson Raphael Hirsch
…Raphael Hirsch (Hebrew: שמשון רפאל הירש; 20 June 1808 – 31 December 1888) 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…
Interaction with modern culture is one aspect of Torah im Derech Eretz. Hirsch saw a common ground in values exposed by a philosopher like Schiller. The image, by Luise Duttenhofer (1776–1829), depicts Schiller reading.
Torah im Derech Eretz shaped the curriculum of the Beis Yaakov school system. The second graduating class of the Beis Yaakov in Łódź, Poland, in 1934.
Cover of an 1899 edition of The Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel, where Hirsch lays out his program of Torah im Derech Eretz.