District rabbinate Landau (Palatinate)
The Landau District Rabbinate was created in 1838. The seat of the district rabbis was Landau in the Palatinate . The district rabbinate in Landau was one of four district rabbinates in the Bavarian Palatinate .
Parishes of the rabbinical district
The district rabbinate in Landau comprised the Jewish communities in the district offices of Landau , Bergzabern and Germersheim :
- Bergzabern Jewish Community
- Jewish community of Böchingen
- Edesheim Jewish Community
- Jewish community of Germersheim
- Jewish community of Göcklingen
- Jewish community of Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz
- Heuchelheim Jewish Community
- Jewish community Ingenheim (after the dissolution of the district rabbinate Ingenheim)
- Klingenmünster Jewish Community
- Jewish community of Landau
- Jewish community in Leimersheim
- Jewish community of Pleisweiler
District rabbi
- 1838–1893: Elias Grünebaum
- 1893–1934: Berthold Einstein (born December 31, 1862 in Ulm ; died June 4, 1935 in Landau in the Palatinate)
- 1935–1938: Kurt Metzger
literature
- Gerhard Liebel: On the fate of the Jewish population in the former district rabbinate Landau since the time of National Socialism: an investigation into the persecution of Jews in the Third Reich and the post-National Socialist discussion of this chapter in a Palatinate region (diploma thesis in political science at the University of Mannheim), Mannheim 1994 ( not evaluated)