Zacharias Frankel walks out of the Frankfurt Reform conference over the status of Hebrew and founds the positive-historical approach: tradition developed through history and binds through the practice of the community. His Breslau seminary, opened in 1854, trains the rabbis of what becomes Conservative Judaism.
Tagged: Conservative Judaism Jewish
The Event
- Date
- 1845 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard periodization of Jewish history
- Location
- Frankfurt and Breslau; today Wrocław, Poland
- Traditions
- Judaism
- Streams
- Conservative Judaism
- Key figures
- Zacharias Frankel
Primary Sources
- Zacharias Frankel, Darkhei ha-Mishnah (1859)
Secondary Sources
- Meyer, Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism (Oxford, 1988)
- Sarna, American Judaism: A History (Yale, 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0125; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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