Abraham Ascher

Abraham Ascher ( 1794 in Wallerstein - November 5, 1837 in Bühl ) was a district rabbi in Baden .

Life

Abraham Ascher, son of the later Baden Oberland rabbi Ascher Löw , learned in Metz and Fürth . On January 10, 1821, he married Gertrud, born Herzfeld (1797–1880) in Mannheim , daughter of the rabbi Salomon Herzthal (also Herzfeld ) in Mannheim. There were seven children from this marriage. The family initially lived from trading and lending money, and in 1828 he got a job as a prayer leader in Mannheim. In 1829 he was first decayed rabbinate and from July 2, 1832 until his death, district rabbi in Bühl. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Bühl.

Works

• Speech given on September 22, 1821, a fortnight before the Feast of Atonement, to a large gathering of fellow Israelites there. Mannheim 1821.

literature

• The Jewish Encyclopedia . A descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the jewish people form the earliest times. Edited by Isidore Singer, New York 1901–1906; Vol. VIII, p. 191.
• Carsten Wilke : Biographical manual of the rabbis. Part 1, The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781-1871. Vol. 1, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , p. 149.