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Neo-Orthodoxy

Jewish religious movement

Also known as: Trennungsorthodoxie

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association with Jewish mysticism

In Judaism: Modern Jewish mysticism
“Neo-Orthodoxy,” the theological system founded in Germany by Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–88), was indifferent to mysticism at the outset, but it too came to be influenced by it, especially after the rediscovery of living Judaism in Poland during World War I by Western Jewish thinkers.…
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comparison with Orthodox Judaism

In Orthodox Judaism
Neo-Orthodoxy, for example, a late 19th-century development under the leadership of Samson Raphael Hirsch, sanctioned modern dress, the use of the vernacular in sermons, and a more positive view of modern culture.
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founding by Hirsch

In Samson Raphael Hirsch
…of Trennungsorthodoxie (Separatist Orthodoxy), or Neo-Orthodoxy, a theological system that helped make Orthodox Judaism viable in Germany.
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