District rabbinate Schwabach

The district rabbinate Schwabach was created according to the regulations of the Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 in Schwabach , a city in northern Bavaria . The predecessor was an existing chief rabbinate in the Margravial-Ansbach era and under Prussian sovereignty .

From 1851 to 1857, the Schwabach district rabbinate was temporarily dissolved and the associated communities joined the Oettingen district rabbinate . After the last Rabbi Salomon Mann emigrated in 1932 , the Schwabach district rabbinate was dissolved and the only remaining community in Schwabach was assigned to the Ansbach district rabbinate .

tasks

The duties included advising on school matters, managing foundations and distributing alms . To finance the district rabbinates, levies were paid by the individual Jewish communities.

District rabbinate congregations

In the 19th century:

• Burghaslach Jewish Community (since 1883)
• Forth Jewish Community
• Georgensgmünd Jewish Community
• Jewish community of Hainsfarth
• Jewish community Hilpoltstein
• Jewish community Hüttenbach
• Jewish community Ottensoos with branch community Hersbruck
• Pappenheim Jewish community
• Jewish community of Schnaittach
• Jewish community Schwabach
• Jewish community Thalmässing (from 1851 to the district rabbinate Sulzbürg )
• Jewish community of Treuchtlingen (since 1873)
• Windsbach Jewish community

District rabbi

• 1815 to 1818 Isak Ahronsohn Mannheimer
• 1820 to 1850 Abraham Wechsler
• 1850 to 1851 Nathan Feuchtwang (rabbinate corrupt )
• 1857 to 1903 Löb Wißmann (born March 29, 1830 in Wiesenbronn ; died 1903), he had attended the yeshiva in Höchberg and then the Talmud college of Nathan Wolf Lieber in Pressburg .
• 1903 to 1932 Salomon Mannes (died 1960)

See also

• Land Rabbinate Ansbach

Web links

• Jewish community of Schwabach near Alemannia Judaica

literature

• Peter Kuhn: Jewish cemetery Georgensgmünd . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-422-06559-8 .
• The Schwabach rabbinical district . Ergon-Verlag , Würzburg 2009, ( Franconia Judaica , Vol. 4) ISBN 978-3-89913-788-0 [not evaluated]