Samuel Hirsch Margulies
Deceased Person
1858 – 1922
Who was Samuel Hirsch Margulies?
Samuel Hirsch Margulies Dr., Orthodox rabbi and scholar. He was born in Berezhany, western Ukraine, and studied at the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary and at the universities of Breslau and Leipzig, in Germany. He was rabbi in Hamburg, district rabbi of Hesse Nassau, Germany, and in 1890 was appointed chief rabbi of Florence, Italy. In 1899 he became principal of Italy’s only rabbinical seminary, the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano when it transferred from Rome to Florence. Margulies was a powerful spiritual force in Italy and trained many of its religious leaders. He founded and edited Rivista Israelitica, the learned journal published by the Seminary. His scholarly publications included an edition of Rabbi Saadiah’s Arabic translation of the Psalms.
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