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'PREFACE
In 1956, the Soncino Press, London, published two volumes of selected essays from the writings of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch under the name of "Judaism Eternal", translated from the German original and annotated with an Introduction and a short Biography by the present writer. That publication, apart from
Dr B. Drachman's English translation of Hirsch's "Nineteen Letters on Judaism", was the first major work in the English language dealing with the writings of Samson Raphael Hirsch.
In the preface to "Judaism Eternal" I expressed my conviction that the influence of Rabbi Samson Raphael
Hirsch's conception of Thorah-Judaism was bound to increase in the modern world. This prediction has been fully verified bij subsequent events. There have since appeared two anthologies of Hirsch's works in New York, apart from a new and revised edition of Drachman's translation of the "Nineteen Letters".
Furthermore, Hirsch's monumental "Commentary on the Torah" has been translated into English, of which translation the volumes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus andNumbers have so far been published.
An English translation of the first part of his deeply pertceptive "Commentary on the Psalms" hasjust been published in New York.
The influence of Samson Raphael Hirsch on Jewish life and thought has been traced by the present writer in a volume entitled "Three Generations". (...).

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