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Michael Sachs was born in Glogau, Silesia in 1808. He served as rabbi in Prague from 1836 to 1844, when he moved to Berlin and took on rabbinical duties there. He tried to find a middle way between Jewish Orthodoxy and the reform movement of his time, which wasn’t appreciated by either side. But he was widely acknowledged as a scholar and a poet, by emerging as a leader of “Wissenschaft des Judentums”; cooperating with Leopold Zunz on new translations of the Bible; and writing on Rabbinic legends and Hebrew poetry, particularly his major work, “Religioese Poesie der Juden in Spanien”. His translation of Machzor and Siddur into poetical German became commonly used. Rabbi Michael Sachs died in Berlin in 1864.

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Michael Sachs, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3044.