Raphael Kirchheim
Raphael Kirchheim was a German Jewish scholar.Life
Kirchheim was of a pugnacious disposition and took a very active part in the general attack on the Amsterdam administration of the Ḥaluḳḳah in 1843-44, which was especially directed against Hirsch Lehren of Amsterdam, president of the board of administration. Kirchheim severely criticized Samson Raphael Hirsch's Der Pentateuch in a pamphlet entitled Die Neue Exegetenschule: Eine Kritische Dornenlese.
Kirchheim left a valuable collection, of Hebraica and Judaica, to the religious school of the M. Horovitz Synagogue at Frankfort.Works
He published many articles in German magazines. Kirchheim edited or published:
- S. L. Rapoport's "Tokaḥat Megullah, Sendschreiben an die Rabbinerversammlung zu Frankfurt-am-Main", Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1845
- Azulai's "Shem ha-Gedolim" and "Wa'ad la-Ḥakamim" with the annotations of A. Fuld and E. Carmoly, ib. 1847
- "Karme Shomeron," an introduction to the Talmudical treatise "Kutim," with an additional letter by S. D. Luzzatto, ib. 1851
- Eliezer Ashkenazi's "Ṭa'am Zeḳenim," ib. 1854
- B. Goldberg's edition of Jonah ibn Janaḥ's "Sefer ha-Riḳmah," with additional notes of his, ib. 1856
- "Perush 'al Dibre ha-Yamim, Commentar zur Chronik aus dem X Jahrhundert," ib. 1874
- Abraham Geiger's "Nachgelassene Schriften," v. 1, Berlin, 1877.
He wrote also additional notes to:
- A. Ginzburg's "Perush ReDaK 'al ha-Torah," Presburg, 1842
- S. Werblumer's edition of Joseph ibn Caspi's "'Ammude Kesef," ib. 1848
- Filipowski's "Sefer Teshubot Dunash ben Labraṭ."
