Benjamin Dispecker

Benjamin Dispecker ( Hebrew בנימין דיספקר, born around 1800 in Merchingen ; died in Breisach am Rhein in 1828 ) was a district rabbi in Baden .

Benjamin Dispecker attended the Lyceum and the yeshiva in Karlsruhe and studied four semesters at the University of Würzburg from October 29, 1821 . In 1824 he became a rabbinate candidate in Karlsruhe and in 1825 the first district rabbi in Breisach , where he died in 1828. The son Samuel, who emigrated to Buffalo (USA), came from his marriage to his wife Jeanette (born 1802 in Ihringen ) . His widow married Wolf Bloch in Sulzburg.

Works

• Sermons given in the synagogues in Karlsruhe and Bühl by the rabbinate candidates Jakob Ettlinger , Elias Willstätter and Benjamin Dispecker. Karlsruhe 1824.

literature

• Leopold Löwenstein : On the history of the Jews in Fürth, first part: The rabbinate. In: Yearbook of the Jewish-Literary Society in Frankfurt am Main. Volume 6, Frankfurt am Main 1908, p. 82.
• Hans-David Blum: Jews in Breisach. From the beginnings to the Schoáh, Vol. I: 12.-19. Century. Konstanz 1998, pp. 146, 174f.
• Meyer Kayserling (ed.): Library of Jewish pulpit speakers. A chronological collection of the sermons, biographies, and characteristics of the finest Jewish preachers. 1st year, Julius Springer, Berlin 1870, p. 350 f.
• Entry DISPECKER, Benjamin. In: In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781-1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, p. 252 f.