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ZECHARIAS See also:FRANKEL (1801-1875) , Jewish theologian, one of the founders of the See also:Breslau school of " See also:historical Judaism." This school attempts to harmonize See also:critical treatment of the documents of See also:religion with fidelity to traditional beliefs and observances . For a See also:time at least, the See also:compromise succeeded in staying the disintegrating effects of the liberal See also:movement in Judaism . See also:Frankel was the author of several valuable See also:works, among them See also:Septuagint Studies, an Introduction to the Mishnah (1859), and a similar See also:work on the Palestinian See also:Talmud (1870) . He also edited the Monatsschrift, devoted to Jewish learning on See also:modern lines . But his See also:chief claim to fame rests on his headship of the Breslau See also:Seminary . This was founded in 1854 for the training of rabbis who should combine their rabbinic studies with See also:secular courses at the university . The whole See also:character of the rabbinate has been modified under the See also:influence of this, the first seminary of the See also:kind . (I . |
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