Barnos

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Barnos , also Barnoss (plural Barnossen , West Yiddish from Talmudic Hebrew - Aramaic Parnas ), was the common name in Franconia for the head of a Jewish community . The term was used from around the 16th to at least the middle of the 19th century as a synonym for the German words "Vorgänger" or "Vorgeher". Instead of Barnos, the original variant Parnas or Parnes (plural Parnasim ) was used in other parts of Germany .

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Kraus, Hans-Christoph Dittscheid, Gury Schneider-Ludorff (editor): More than stones ... Synagogue Memorial Volume Bavaria - Part III / 1 (Lower Franconia). Lindenberg 2015. p. 854 (glossary).