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Isaac Asher Francolm
1788–1849
Isaac Asher Francolm was a preacher and religious teacher in East Prussia. Born in Breslau, he taught from 1820 to 1826 in Königsberg, during which time he modernized synagogue rituals and introduced the confirmation of girls. In 1826, he returned to Breslau and became headmaster of the local Jewish school, serving until 1847. He wrote on a variety of topics, including religion and history, but also fiction, mathematics, and pedagogy, some under the name Eugen Rispart.
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Rational Judaism
According to the rabbinic view, as soon as a boy has completed his thirteenth year he is required to fulfill all the ceremonial laws, although previously he was excused from some, was not permitted to…
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Rabbinic Scholarship, 1750–1880
Despite the challenges of the early modern period, rabbinic scholarship flourished in Central and Eastern Europe in the latter half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century.