Tag: Isaac Emil Lichtigfeld

Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Cultural Ideal and Our Times, by Jakob Rosenheim, translated by Dr. I. E. Lichtigfeld, London, 1951.

There's a lot in this book - the subject, the author, the translator, the publisher and the printer. The subject, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-88) was a German rabbi and religious thinker. He was born in Hamburg where he received a general as well as a traditional Jewish education. His teacher in Hamburg was Isaac … Continue reading Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Cultural Ideal and Our Times, by Jakob Rosenheim, translated by Dr. I. E. Lichtigfeld, London, 1951. →

Jews College, Eighty Third Annual Report, London, 5670 – 1939.

Here is Jews College in wartime, the last one standing in 1939. All the Jewish Seats of Learning in Germany, Austria and Italy, the Seminaries of Breslau and Vienna, the Lehrenstalt and Rabbiner-Seminar of Berlin, the Yeshivahs at Frankfort and Rhodes and the Collegio Rabbinico of Rome, have been closed. Of these institutions, only Jews … Continue reading Jews College, Eighty Third Annual Report, London, 5670 – 1939. →