Hirsch (first name)
Hirsch is a male given name of Jewish Germans and, according to Genesis 49:21, refers to the comparison of Naphtali with a deer .
Name bearer
- Hirsch Alexander (1790–1842), Lübeck police officer
- Hirsch Baer Fassel (1802-1883), rabbi
- Hirsch David Nomberg (1876–1927), writer and publicist
- Hirsch Gradenwitz (1876–1943), Orthodox rabbi
- Hirsch Glik (1922–1944), poet
- Heinrich Graetz (1817–1891), historian
- Hirsch Hildesheimer (1855–1910), scholar, lecturer, writer and activist against the ban on the Schechita
- Hirsch Kunreuther (1771–1847), Talmud and Torah scholar
- Hirsch Oscherowitsch (1908–1994), writer
- Hirsch Oppenheimer (1794–1870), merchant and founder
- Hirsch Schwarzberg (1907–1987), leading activist for Holocaust survivors
- Zvi Zamoscz (1740–1807), rabbi, Kabbalist and teacher
See also
- Hirsch (family name) - for namesake see there
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