Famous People with Name Hirsch

Hirsch Lehren            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Hirsch Lehren: was a Dutch Jewish merchant and community worker.Lehren was prominent in the history of the ?alu??ah in the first half of the nineteenth century. Beginning with 1810, he, as a rich and influential merchant, was entrusted, together with Abraham Prinz and Solomon Reuben, with the responsibility of forwarding to Palestine the contributions which were sent annually to Amsterdam. In 1822 he ruled that in future only one representative, instead of two, should be sent from Palestine for both the Sephardic and the Ashkenazic congregations, and that the money collected for the ?alu??ah should be divided in proportion to the number of persons in the Palestinian congregations in question.

Hirsch Jacobs            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hirsch Jacobs: was an American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner. Jacobs was the leading race-winning trainer in the United States 1933-39, 1941-44, the U.S. leading money-winning trainer, 1946, 1960, 1965, and the U.S. leading money-winning breeder, 1964-67. During