Raphael Kirchheim (born in
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...
1804; died there September 6, 1889) was a German Jewish scholar.
Life
Kirchheim was of a pugnacious disposition and took a very active part in the general attack on the Amsterdam administration of the
Ḥaluḳḳah
The ''halukka'', also spelled ''haluka'', ''halukkah'' or ''chalukah'' (, meaning ''distribution'') was an organized collection and distribution of charity funds for Jewish residents of the Land of Israel (the Holy Land).
General method of op ...
in 1843-44, which was especially directed against
Hirsch Lehren Hirsch Lehren, also known as Tsebi Hirsch Lehren (April 1784, The Hague - September 1853, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Jewish merchant and community worker.
Lehren was prominent in the history of the Ḥaluḳḳah in the first half of the nineteenth ce ...
of Amsterdam, president of the board of administration. Kirchheim severely criticized Samson Raphael Hirsch's ''Der Pentateuch'' in a pamphlet entitled ''Die Neue Exegetenschule: Eine Kritische Dornenlese'' (Breslau, 1867).
Kirchheim left a valuable collection, of Hebraica and Judaica, to the religious school of the M. Horovitz Synagogue at Frankfort.
Works
He published many articles in German magazines. Kirchheim edited or published:
*
S. L. Rapoport
Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (; June 1, 1786 – October 15, 1867) was a Galician and Czech rabbi and Jewish scholar.
Rapoport was known by an acronym "Shir", שי"ר occasionally שיל"ר, formed by the initial letters of his Hebrew n ...
's "Tokaḥat Megullah, Sendschreiben an die Rabbinerversammlung zu Frankfurt-am-Main" (Hebr. and German, the translation being by Kirchheim himself), Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1845
*
Azulai's "Shem ha-Gedolim" and "Wa'ad la-Ḥakamim" with the annotations of
A. Fuld and
E. Carmoly, ib. 1847
*"Karme Shomeron," an introduction to the Talmudical treatise "Kutim," with an additional letter by
S. D. Luzzatto, ib. 1851 (the appendix gives the seven smaller treatises of the Jerusalem Talmud, according to a Carmoly manuscript)
*
Eliezer Ashkenazi Eliezer ben Solomon Ashkenazi was a Rabbi and Talmudical scholar born in Poland about the beginning of the 19th century, who resided afterward in Tunis. He published at Metz in 1849, under the title ''Dibre Hakamim'' ("Words of heWise"), a selec ...
's "Ṭa'am Zeḳenim," ib. 1854
*
B. Goldberg's edition of
Jonah ibn Janah
Jonah ibn Janah () or AbÅ« al-WalÄ«d MarwÄn ibn JanÄḥ (), (), was a Jewish rabbi, physician and Hebrew grammarian active in al-Andalus (Muslim-ruled Spain). Born in Córdoba, ibn Janah was mentored there by Isaac ibn Gikatilla and Isaac ibn ...
's "Sefer ha-Riḳmah," with additional notes of his, ib. 1856
*"Perush 'al Dibre ha-Yamim, Commentar zur Chronik aus dem X Jahrhundert," ib. 1874
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Abraham Geiger
Abraham Geiger (Hebrew: ''ʼAvrÄhÄm Gayger''; 24 May 181023 October 1874) was a German rabbi and scholar who is considered the founding father of Reform Judaism and the academic field of Quranic studies. Emphasizing Judaism's constant developm ...
's "Nachgelassene Schriften," v. 1, Berlin, 1877.
He wrote also additional notes to:
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A. Ginzburg's "Perush ReDaK 'al ha-Torah," Presburg, 1842
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S. Werblumer
S is the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet.
S may also refer to:
History
* an Anglo-Saxon charter's number in Peter Sawyer's, catalogue
Language and linguistics
* Long s (Å¿), a form of the lower-case letter s formerly used where "s ...
's edition of Joseph ibn Caspi's "'Ammude Kesef," ib. 1848
*
Filipowski's "Sefer Teshubot Dunash ben Labraá¹."
References
*Allg. Zeit. des Jud. 1889, p. 587;
*S. Bernfeld, Toledot ha-Reformaẓion, p. 214;
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William Zeitlin
William Zeitlin (; – 1921) was a Russian scholar and bibliographer.
Biography
William Zeitlin was born in Gomel, Mogilev Governorate, into a prominent Jewish family from Shklov.
His major work was ''Kiryat Sefer'', or ''Bibliotheca Hebraica P ...
, Ḳiryat Sefer, p. 171;
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Joseph Zedner
Joseph Zedner (10 February 1804 – 10 October 1871) was a German Jewish bibliographer and librarian.
After completing his education, he acted as teacher in the Jewish school in Strelitz (Mecklenburg), where the lexicographer Daniel Sanders w ...
, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 413
External links
*''Jewish Encyclopedia''
"Kirchheim, Raphael"by Isidore Singer & Max Schloessinger (1906).
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1804 births
1889 deaths
19th-century German Jews