Bidspirit auction | S. R. Hirsch, Neunzehn Briefe

S. R. Hirsch, Neunzehn Briefe ueber Judentum, litho illustr. portrait of S. R. Hirsch by H. Struck, 1919, in German Samson Raphael Hirsch, editor. Neunzehn Briefe ueber Judentum als Voranfrage wegen Herausgabe von ”Versuchen” desselben Verfassers ”ueber Israel und seine Pflichten” Hrsg. (editor) Samson ben Raphael Lithographed portrait of Samson Raphael Hirsch by Hermann Struck on frontispiece, signed in the plate lower left. Druckleitung und Einband von Menachem Birnbaum (Printing and binding by Menachem Birnbaum (perished in Holocaust) Berlin, Welt-Verlag, 1919, 127 pp., hard cover, size: 19 x 13 cm., Condition: cover discolored, spine damaged to the ends; light brown paper. Weight: 210 gr. Samson Raphael Hirsch (Hebrew: שמשון רפאל הירש‎; June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism Hermann Struck (6 March 1876 – 11 January 1944) was a German Jewish artist known for his etchings. Menachem Birnbaum (born 1893 in Vienna, died probably 1944), was an Austrian Jewish book illustrator and portrait painter.