Tuesday, June 22, 2010
"Persecuted in Hungary as a Reformer, and hailed in Berlin as a champion of Orthodoxy."
In light of the continuing interest in Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer, here is the coverage his death in the Jewish Chronicle of June 16, 1899. In case anyone wondered, the "I." stands for "Israel," which was his vernacular name:
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My guess is that the writer of the first obituary, "E.N.A.," was Elkan Nathan Adler, son of Ch. R. Nathan Adler and himself a Geniza scholar.
ReplyDeleteThat's undoubtedly correct.
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