His contemporary Isaac Dov Bamberger, Rabbi of Würzburg, argued that as long as the Grossgemeinde made appropriate arrangements for the Orthodox element, secession was unnecessary.
The school, founded by Rabbi Joseph Breuer, is run according to the philosophy of Rabbi Breuer's grandfather, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.
Raphael | Samson | Saint-Raphaël, Var | Samson Siasia | Sally Jessy Raphael | John K. Samson | Gordon Raphael | Raphael Saadiq | Steven Hirsch | Raphael Pyrasch | Raphael I Bidawid | Raphael Holinshed | Raphaël Bassan | Samson Raphael Hirsch | Samson of Dol | Samson (band) | Saint-Raphaël | Raphael Soyer | Raphael (singer) | Raphaël Géminiani | Maurice de Hirsch | Robert Hirsch | Raphael Wallfisch | Raphael Semmes | Raphael Rooms | Raphael Rabello | Raphael Honigstein | Raphael Hillyer | Polly Samson | Peter Hirsch |
The Feldheim library includes the complete works of Samson Raphael Hirsch, including his collected writings and commentaries on the Chumash, siddur, Haggadah of Pesach, and Tehillim.
He received his rabbinical training at Hassfurt, Höchberg near Würzburg, Mainz, Altona, and at Frankfurt am Main (under Samson Raphael Hirsch), and his university training at Munich, Berlin, Leipsic, and Erlangen (Ph.D. 1868; his thesis, "Der Segen Jacob's", was one of the earliest Jewish essays in the field of the higher Biblical criticism, and its radical character had the effect of closing to him the Jewish pulpit in Germany).