Chaim Hirschensohn
Chaim Hirsch son ( born August 31, 1857 in Safed, † September 15, 1935, Hebrew: חיים הירשנזון, also Hayyim Hirsch 's son ) was the editor of Jewish scriptures as well as Grand Rabbi of Hoboken in New Jersey in the United States.
His father, Yaakov Mordechai Hirsch son emigrated in 1848 from the then Russian Pinsk into Ottoman Safed. In 1864 the family ( along with Chaim's older brother, Rabbi Yitzchok ( Isaac ) Hirsch son ) went to Jerusalem. In the late 1870s and 1880s took place in Russia his rabbinical ordination, he also taught in Lithuania and Germany brought in an academic religious- nationalist magazine out, the Hamisdarona. Could Hirsch son many prominent scholars win as article writer for the Hamisdarona, so among other things Esriel Hildesheim, Abraham Berlin, Meir Ish Shalom Friedman and Micha Josef Berdyczewski. Between 1885 and 1889 he published 50 issues of the magazine; after the death of his father he set the series.
Like his brother, the young Zionist Chaim Hirsch son worked with Eliezer Ben- Yehuda in mind, revive the Hebrew language, and founded in Jerusalem the Safah - Berurah Society ( " Safah Berurah " means as much as " plain text "). He and his wife Chava ( Hava, 1861-1932 ) published writings and newspapers in Hebrew as well as in Yiddish.
After he left Jerusalem and moved to Constantinople Opel, he founded a Hebrew school. In 1903, he lived as a delegate for Konstantin Opel at the 6th Zionist Congress in Basel. A year later, he was finally hired as Chief Rabbi of Hoboken, a position which also places " Hoboken, West Hoboken, Jersey City Heights, Union Hill and the Environs " as areas of competence included. He remained in Hoboken until his death in 1935. Rabbi Hirsch 's son wrote about 40 books with different themes, including the relationship between Judaism and democracy, the situation of women, as well as the conflicts between traditional Judaism and modern science and research. Perhaps his best-known work is Malki Ba - Kodesh, a six-volume series that he published 1919-1928, in which he examines the halacha (Jewish law), with a possible future Jewish state could be governed. He got a lot of praise from the religious scholars of his time, such as Meir Ben-Zion Hai Uziel, Abraham Isaac Kook and Tzvi Pesach Frank.
Hirsch son daughter Tamar married Rabbi David de Sola Pool, and another daughter, Tehilla Lichtenstein, was at the head of the Jewish Science movement.