Modern Orthodox Judaism

Modern Orthodox Judaism is a living tradition within Orthodox Judaism. Also written Neo-Orthodoxy, Torah im Derekh Eretz.

Origin

Founder named in the sources: Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. NULL: the Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices credits Hirsch with founding Modern Orthodoxy under the motto Torah im Derekh Eretz ('Torah in harmony with secular culture'), articulated in his Nineteen Letters (1836). No founding year is given by the source; 1836 is the date of a book, not of a movement, and is not promoted to a founding date here.