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SACHS, MICHAEL (1808–1864)

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SACHS, See also:MICHAEL (1808–1864) , See also:German See also:Rabbi. He was one of the first of Jewish graduates of the See also:modern' See also:universities, taking his Ph.D. degree in 1836. He was appointed Rabbi in See also:Prague in 1836, and in See also:Berlin in 1844. He took the conservative See also:side against the Reform agitation, and so strongly opposed the introduction of the See also:organ into the See also:Synagogue that he retired from the Rabbinate rather than acquiesce. Sachs was one of the greatest preachers of his .See also:age, and published two volumes. of Sermons (Predigten, 1866–1891).. He co-operated with See also:Zunz (q.v.) in a new See also:translation of the See also:Bible. Sachs is best remembered for his See also:work on See also:Hebrew See also:poetry, Religiose Poesie der Juden in Spanien (1845); his more ambitious See also:critical work (Beitrage zur Sprach- and Alterthumsforschung, 2 vols., 1852–1854) is of less lasting value. His poetical gifts he turned to admirable See also:account in his translation of the Festival Prayers (Maltzor, q vols., 1855), a new teature of which was the metrical rendering of the See also:medieval Hebrew See also:hymns. Another very popular work by Sachs contains poetical paraphrases of Rabbinic legends (Stimmen vom See also:Jordan and Euphrat, 1853). (I.

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