Eliezer Simon Kirschbaum was an

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and writer. He was born in

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, Galicia, 1797 and died at Cracow 1860. After studying philosophy and medicine in

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, he settled as a physician in Cracow, and as "Der Berliner Doctor" soon acquired an extensive practice and accumulated a considerable fortune. In order to be able to secure the estate of Siemota, near Chrzanow, he adopted the

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religion, and assumed the name of "Sigismund." As a married man he permitted his wife to remain a law-abiding Jew throughout her life. Kirschbaum was the author of a long

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essay, entitled "Hilkot Yeme ha-Mashiaḥ." In the

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he published "Der Jüdische Alexandrinismus," Leipzig, 1841, and "Der Familie Apotheose," Cracow, 1858.

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