Azriel Hildesheimer

Rabbi Dr.
Azriel Hildesheimer
Photograph of Azriel Hildesheimer
TitleRabbi, Educator, Modern Orthodox Leader
Personal
Born
Azriel Hildesheimer

(1820-05-11)11 May 1820
Died12 June 1899(1899-06-12) (aged 79)
ReligionJudaism
NationalityGerman
SpouseHenrietta Hirsch
ChildrenHirsch Hildesheimer
ParentRabbi Löb Glee Hildesheimer (father)
Alma materUniversity of Halle-Wittenberg
OccupationRabbi, Educator, Leader of Modern Orthodox Judaism
Jewish leader
SuccessorRabbi David Zvi Hoffmann
PositionRabbi
SynagogueAdass Jisroel (Berlin)
PositionFounder and Rosh Yeshiva
YeshivaHildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary
PositionLeader, Founder
OrganisationAdass Jisroel, Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary
Began1869
Ended1899
OtherRabbi of Eisenstadt (1851–1869)
Yahrtzeit12 June 1899
BuriedWeißensee Cemetery, Berlin
ResidenceBerlin, Germany
SemikhahRabbi Jacob Ettlinger

Azriel Hildesheimer (also Esriel and Israel, Yiddish: עזריאל הילדעסהיימער; 11 May 1820[1][2] – 12 June 1899) was a German rabbi and leader of Orthodox Judaism. He is regarded as a pioneering moderniser of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and as a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism.

Headshot of Rav Hildesheimer
  1. ^ Ellenson, David Henry (1990). Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the creation of a modern Jewish orthodoxy. Judaic studies series. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-8173-0485-1.
  2. ^ Hildesheimer, Ezriel (1965). Briefe. R. Mass. p. 294. OCLC 2660886.