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HOLDHEIM, SAMUEL (18o6-186o)

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HOLDHEIM, See also:SAMUEL (18o6-186o) , Jewish See also:rabbi, a See also:leader of reform in the See also:German See also:Synagogue, was See also:born in See also:Posen in 18o6 and died in See also:Berlin in 186o. In 1836 he was appointed rabbi at See also:Frankfort-on-the-See also:Oder, in 1840 he was transferred to the rabbinate of See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Schwerin. He then became prominent as an See also:advocate on the one See also:hand of religious freedom (much trammelled at the See also:time by Prussian See also:state See also:laws) and on the other of reform within the Jewish community. Various rabbinical conferences were held, at See also:Brunswick (1844), Frankfort-on-the-See also:Main (1845) and See also:Breslau (1846). At all of these Holdheim was a strong supporter of the policy of modifying See also:ritual (especially with regard to See also:Sabbath observance, See also:marriage laws and liturgical customs). In 1846 he was chosen Rabbi of the new Berlin See also:congregation and there exercised considerable See also:influence on the course of Jewish reform. See I. H. See also:Ritter in the Jewish Quarterly See also:Review, i. 202. The same authority has written the See also:life of Holdheim in vol. iii. of his Geschichte der jiidischen See also:Reformation (Berlin, 1865). See also:Graetz in his See also:History passes an unfavourable See also:judgment on Holdheim, and there were admittedly grounds for opposition to Holdheim's attitude.

A moderate See also:

criticism is contained in Dr D. Philipson's History of the Reform See also:Movement in Judaism (See also:London, 1906).

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