EDIT: This is Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer, founder and rector (rosh yeshiva) of the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, painted in 1890: link. Below is a more commonly seen image, a photograph:
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#1 How was the Tetragrammaton actually pronounced?
#2 On Hirsch's 19 Letters and a controversy about the meaning of it's Hebrew title
#3 On the important role played by printing never-published old works.
#4 Disapproving of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch's predilection for German
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#2 On Hirsch's 19 Letters and a controversy about the meaning of it's Hebrew title
#3 On the important role played by printing never-published old works.
#4 Disapproving of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch's predilection for German
#5 What does Morenu really mean?
#6 On facing the truths of history and autobiography
#7 On alienation from his teachers, and a public retraction
#8 To what does "Nothing Jewish is Alien to Me" refer?
#9 Samuel David Luzzatto's Letter to the Ethiopian Jews
#10 On Shimon ben Shetach and the 80 Witches
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ReplyDeleteGood guesses, but this is Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer, painted in 1890: link.
he seems to look much happier in the photograph with his more modern modern apparel and smaller head covering. but i'm sure the diffrences in countenance is owing just to the excrutiatingly long time it took to sit for a painted portrait.
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