Bärmann Frankel

Samuel Eli Isachar Bärmann Fränkel (born 1645/1658 in Vienna ; died on September 30, 1708 in Fürth ) was the regional rabbi of the Margraviate of Ansbach in Fürth.

Life

He was the grandson of the wealthy banker Jakob Koppel Fränkel (1600–1670) and son of David Isaac Seckel Fränkel (1625–1691) and Ratisch Meyer-Halevi (1637–1727), all from Vienna. The family settled in Fürth after the Jews were expelled from Vienna (1670) . They brought the Wiener Memorbuch with them to Fürth, which was only regularly continued there from 1708.

Fränkel was the state rabbi of the Margraviate of Ansbach . Until 1696 he was chief rabbi in Schnaittach before he moved to Fürth to work there as an internationally respected chief rabbi and chairman of the rabbinical court .

In 1707, just one year before his death, he founded a Klaus and a Klaus synagogue in his house in Fürth . He left the building and capital to continue running this school to his Jewish community . The Klaus was later managed by his descendant Wolf Hamburg . A copper engraving by Johann Alexander Boener from 1705 shows the house at Marktplatz 3 as the house of the "Berman Jew" .

Fränkel's first marriage was Channa (Hannah) Guggenheim (born 1650/1659; died April 2, 1698 in Fürth), daughter of Marem (Saul Meir) Guggenheim , resident in Switzerland . From this marriage there were two sons. In his second marriage Fränkel was married to Bunle Rachel Schneior . From this marriage came four sons and one daughter.

Fränkel was buried in the old Jewish cemetery on the day of his death . However, his grave was destroyed during the National Socialist era .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Bernhard Purin: Book of Memory. The Vienna Memor Book of the Fürth Klaus Synagogue , page 47f., Jüdisches Museum Franken (ed.), 1999, ISBN 3-9805388-6-9 or ISBN 978-3-9805388-6-2 , ( excerpt )

↑ Monika Preuss: Scholars Jews. Learning as an ideal of piety in the early modern period , page 21, 2007 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Frankel, Bärmann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fränkel, Samuel Eli Isachar Bärmann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	State rabbi of the Margraviate of Ansbach
DATE OF BIRTH	1645 or 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 1708
Place of death	Fuerth

[1] Bernhard Purin: Book of Memory. The Vienna Memor Book of the Fürth Klaus Synagogue , page 47f., Jüdisches Museum Franken (ed.), 1999, ISBN 3-9805388-6-9 or ISBN 978-3-9805388-6-2 , ( excerpt )

[2] Monika Preuss: Scholars Jews. Learning as an ideal of piety in the early modern period , page 21, 2007 ( digitized version )