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    Title

  • Samson Raphael Hirsch : k.k. Mährisch & Schlesischer Landes Ober Rabiner; [1847 ?]

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white reproduction ; 25 x 22 cm

  • Summary

    Photo-reproduction of a signed portrait of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch as chief rabbi in the Austrian-Hungarian provinces Moravia and Silesia.

  • Depicted

    Hirsch, Samson Raphael, 1808-1888

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Rabbis

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Samson Raphael Hirsch Family Collection, AR 902

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Biographical/Historical Information

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch - born in Hamburg in 1808 - was called to the rabbinate of Nikolsburg, Moravia (Mikulov, Czech Republic) in 1846 and advanced one year later to become chief rabbi of Moravia and Austrian Silesia. He also was a member of the Moravian parliament (“Landtag”), where he campaigned for civil rights for Jews. In 1851, Hirsch moved to Frankfurt/M. to head the separatist Orthodox group in that widely Reform community. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch died in Frankfurt in 1888.

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Citation

Samson Raphael Hirsch : k.k. Mährisch & Schlesischer Landes Ober Rabiner; [1847 ?], Leo Baeck Institute, F 24450.