Given name: Unknown Family name: Hirsch

A friend of the author, "a very wise Jew." Thought that Jews should defend themselves, protest against the killings, alarm the world.

States logical, unpopular opinions. The English translator thinks that this is an invented alter-ego of Kaplan, an unemotional stoic, a pessimistic realist. But on page No. 267 Hirsch, red in face from anger, calls people idiots because of unrealistic hopes of the fall of the Third Reich - such a behavior is uncommon for the author, thus the character appears to be real. Similarly Hirsch, attacks "like a storm" his countrymen, who were worried about the fate of Palestine. He said that one hundred Jews were killed there in the ghetto (page 286).