Isaac Breuer

Isaac Breuer ( born September 18, 1883 in Papa, Hungary, † July 10, 1946 in Jerusalem, Israel ) was a German-born philosopher and a major representative of Orthodox Judaism.

Life

Breuer, a grandson of Samson Raphael Hirsch, grew up in Frankfurt, where his father was a Rabbi Salomon Breuer and head of a Talmudic educational institution.

Breuer studied law and philosophy in Marburg. Until 1936 he worked as a lawyer in Frankfurt, before he emigrated to Palestine.

In addition to his legal work, Breuer published many writings in which he deals with Jewish philosophical but also political issues. He saw himself as a successor of his grandfather, however, influenced by his conception of Kantian philosophy.

The disclosed by the Torah law of God is the foundation of the Jewish religion and nation. Although Breuer advocated a Jewish state, but he refused to Zionism, because this is his opinion, a secularization and abandonment of Jewish independence. He was until his death an important representative of the non-Zionist Jewish orthodoxy.

He was a member of the Kant Society.