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Also Known As Yom-tob Lippmann
Born August 10, 1794 • Detmold • Germany
Died March 18, 1886 (aged 91) • Berlin • Germany
Founder Science of Judaism
Subjects Of Study Jewish literature • Judaism
Meyer Waxman
American Judaic scholar
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
Mendelssohn, Moses
Moses Mendelssohn
German-Jewish philosopher and scholar
Edith Stein
Edith Stein
German nun
Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms
German rabbi
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Judah ben Samuel
German Jewish mystic
Meir Of Rothenburg
Jewish rabbi and scholar
Maimon, engraving by Wilhelm Arndt
Salomon Maimon
Jewish philosopher
Samson Raphael Hirsch
German Jewish religious theorist
Jonathan Eybeschütz
Polish rabbi and scholar
Zacharias Frankel
German theologian
Moritz Lazarus, 1892
Moritz Lazarus
Jewish philosopher and psychologist
Jacob Israel Emden
Danish rabbi
Hermann Cohen
German philosopher
Moses Hess
German author and Zionist
Josel of Rosheim
German Jewish advocate
Asher ben Jehiel
Spanish rabbi
Maurice, baron de Hirsch
European businessman