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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