Obj. ID: 35757  Programm für die Einweihung der Synagoge בית תפלה ישורון, Frankfurt am Main, 1853

This text was prepared by William Gross:

Program for the celebration of the inauguration of the synagogue Bet Tefila Jeshurun (the so-called Religions-Gesellschaft) Frankfurt a.M., 29. September 1853. The congregation was led by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, who served as their spiritual leader until his death in 1888.
Rabbi Hirsch was the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism. In 1851 he accepted a call as rabbi of an Orthodox separatist group in Frankfurt am Main, a part of the Jewish community of which had otherwise largely accepted classical Reform Judaism. This group, known as the "Israelite Religious Society" ("Israelitische Religions-Gesellschaft" or IRG), became under his administration the great congregation Bet Tefila Jeshurun, numbering about 500 families.
The "New Bet Tefila Jeshurun" was inaugurated in 29. August 1907 (printed programs for this inauguration exist in other collections).