Leopold Zunz (Hebrew: יום טוב ליפמן צונץ— "Yom Tov Lipmann Tzuntz") (10 August 1794 – 17 March 1886) was the founder of what has been termed the "Science of Judaism" (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual.
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- Eine Religion, welche nicht oder nicht mehr fähig ist, sich auf die Höhe der erworbenen Wissenschaft zu erheben, ist eine tote Religion.
- Translation: A religion, which is not able or no more able to raise to the height of acquired science, is a dead religion.
- Quoted in Lippische Mitteilungen aus Geschichte und Landeskunde, Volume 75, p. 127
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