Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel

Directory

References

Discover

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Plato (left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508-11; in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican. Plato points to the heavens and the realm of Forms, Aristotle to the earth and the realm of things.

Plato and Aristotle: How Do They Differ?

Santa Claus flying in his sleigh, christmas, reindeer

Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece

Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

Thanksgiving Celebration Traditional Dinner Setting Food Concept

Why Is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Celebrated on a Thursday?

Frances Perkins, c. 1939-1945

7 Female Firsts in U.S. Politics

Baseball laying in the grass. Homepage blog 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics

10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel

work by Hirsch

Also known as: “Neunzehn Briefe über Judenthum”

Learn about this topic in these articles:

discussed in biography

In Samson Raphael Hirsch
…Neunzehn Briefe über Judenthum (1836; Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel), in which he expounded Neo-Orthodoxy. This system required two chief courses of action: (1) an educational program that combined strict training in the Torah (Jewish Law) with a modern secular education—so that Orthodoxy could withstand the challenge of Reform Judaism,…
Read More