Aurelie Werner

Sara Hirsch Guggenheim

1863–1864

The relationship between the lovers had already lost much of its intimacy when the couple was blessed with a thriving son. This event reawakened the count’s feelings of tenderness for the mother of his child, and once again several months of pure and unadulterated happiness went by. But then Aurelie caught a cold at a masquerade ball and had to…

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Sara Hirsch Guggenheim

1834–1909

At a time when many Jewish authors turned to fiction to argue that Judaism needed to be altered in order to harmonize with modern life, Sara Hirsch Guggenheim’s stories of contemporary Orthodox families emphasized the delights of tradition. The daughter of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, the founder of the neo-Orthodox movement, Guggenheim was born in Oldenburg, Germany, and began her literary career by publishing serialized stories in her father’s journal Jeschurun. Written under pseudonyms, Guggenheim’s fiction provided enthusiastic support for Orthodoxy.

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