Raphael Kirchheim (born in Frankfort-on-the-Main 1804; died there September 61889) was a German Jewish scholar.
For some time he was
shoḥeṭ in the Orthodox congregation of
Samson Raphael HirschSamson Raphael Hirsch was a German rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism...
in Frankfort, where he spent his whole life. He assented to the protest of the seventy-seven Orthodox rabbis against the decrees of the
Rabbinical Conference of BrunswickThe Rabbinical Conference of Brunswick was a conference held in 1844 in Braunschweig, convoked by Levi Herzfeld and Ludwig Philippson. Other attendees included Solomon Formstecher, Samuel Hirsch, Mendel Hess, Samuel Holdheim...
(1844), and attacked in an open letter ("Offener Brief," 1845), signed "K—m," A.
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Raphael Kirchheim (born in Frankfort-on-the-Main 1804; died there September 61889) was a German Jewish scholar.
Life
For some time he was
shoḥeṭ in the Orthodox congregation of
Samson Raphael HirschSamson Raphael Hirsch was a German rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism...
in Frankfort, where he spent his whole life. He assented to the protest of the seventy-seven Orthodox rabbis against the decrees of the
Rabbinical Conference of BrunswickThe Rabbinical Conference of Brunswick was a conference held in 1844 in Braunschweig, convoked by Levi Herzfeld and Ludwig Philippson. Other attendees included Solomon Formstecher, Samuel Hirsch, Mendel Hess, Samuel Holdheim...
(1844), and attacked in an open letter ("Offener Brief," 1845), signed "K—m," A. Adler, rabbi of Worms. When
Abraham GeigerAbraham Geiger was a German rabbi and scholar who led the founding of Reform Judaism...
became rabbi at Frankfort, Kirchheim developed into a radical partizan of Reform. He had then to give up his position as
shoḥeṭ, but being a partner in a banking firm he had ample means.
Kirchheim was of a pugnacious disposition and took a very active part in the general attack on the Amsterdam administration of the Ḥaluḳḳah in 1843-44, which was especially directed against
Hirsch LehrenHirsch Lehren was a Dutch Jewish merchant and community worker.Lehren was prominent in the history of the Ḥaluḳḳah in the first half of the nineteenth century...
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'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's "Ṭa'am Zeḳenim," ib. 1854
- B. Goldberg's edition of Jonah ibn Janaḥ'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
- Abraham Geiger
Abraham Geiger was a German rabbi and scholar who led the founding of Reform Judaism...
's "Nachgelassene Schriften," v. 1, Berlin, 1877.
He wrote also additional notes to:
- A. Ginzburg's "Perush ReDaK 'al ha-Torah," Presburg, 1842
- S. Werblumer's edition of Joseph ibn Caspi's "'Ammude Kesef," ib. 1848
- Filipowski's "Sefer Teshubot Dunash ben Labraṭ."
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