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The rabbinical seminary in Berlin, founded in 1873 by Esriel Hildesheimer, programatically advocated for the synthesis of traditional Jewish education with modern academic education. As well as being an Orthodox response to the conservative Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin, it was at the same time an expression of the modernizing trends that had also manifested themselves in the emergence of German-Jewish Neo-Orthodox…

The term neo-Orthodox was used in the German-speaking world in the 19th century to denote a religious current arising from the context of Jewish Orthodoxy which attempted a synthesis of Jewish-Orthodox and non-Jewish culture (cultural Orthodoxy). In doing so, neo-Orthodoxy specifically aimed to create organizational structures which met the requirements of Orthodoxy, initially at community level and later also at the intercommunity, inter-regional, and international levels. By the late …

Perceived as Orthodox are those currents within Judaism whose adherents live in keeping with traditional religious law (Halakhah) and who view themselves as the authentic and often also sole bearers of normative Judaism in contrast to other religious trends. Irrespective of its own claims to historical continuity, Jewish Orthodoxy is a phenomenon of European modernity and differs from numerous pre-Enlightenment Halakhic, liturgical, and habitual Jewish practices. Common to all Orthodox …