JWST 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Moses Sofer, Neolog Judaism

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JWST 347
• Professor: Rachel Manekin

Document Summary

In the 1860s a sizable number of hungarian jews shifted their linguistic loyalties from german to hungarian. Jewish school under government supervision started using hungarian. Economic progress, urbanization, and secular schooling brought more jews to neolog synagogues: moses sofer (schreiber) R. sofer is considered the father of hungarian ultra-orthodoxy: was against changes in the traditional curriculum, was against integration, was against the shift from the yiddish to german, especially when delivering a sermon. Most of his ideology remained theoretical because of government restrictions. His most famous saying was: that which is new is forbidden from the torah. The impact of sofer"s students was felt only in the (cid:883)86(cid:882)s: until then, rabbi hildesheimer was influential. Messiah but refers to the jewish people as a whole. A catholic paper sued kompert claiming that even jews view this as heresy. Kompert brought witnesses to court, including the viennese synagogue preacher and a rabbi, who claimed that this is not heresy according to.