Jacob Brandeis

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Jacob bar Moshe Brandeis ha Levi (born in Fürth ; died on May 24, 1774 in Düsseldorf ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Jacob Brandeis came from a famous family of rabbis from Fürth. His grandfather R. Jacob Brandeis immigrated to Fürth from Russia. His father R. Moshe Brandeis ha-Levi (1685–1761) was a well-known Talmudist, had studied at the Jeschiva in Prague and then headed one in Fürth before he was appointed rabbi in Jung-Bunzlau in Bohemia in 1717 and finally in Mainz in 1733 has been. Moshe Brandeis had five sons: Bezalel Brandeis, who became his successor in Jung-Bunzlau, Gabriel Brandeis, who became a rabbi in Prague, Simon, Jacob and Avigdor.

Jacob Brandeis worked as a rabbi in Darmstadt for 20 years before he came to the growing Jewish community of Düsseldorf in 1769 and took over the state rabbinate of the united duchies of Jülich-Berg from his predecessor Mordechai Halberstadt .

Epitaph

R. Jacob Brandeis died on May 24, 1774 in Düsseldorf. His preserved tombstone in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Düsseldorf's North Cemetery can be seen:

“Here is buried
our Lord, teacher and rabbi
Aw bet din here [in Düsseldorf] and in the land of Berg the learned gentleman
The great sage from the Fürth
Pedigree that was there Jacob, son of the very
great wise men from Fürth who was there
Moses Brandeis, Prince of the Levites, the memory of the righteous
blessed be […].
He died on the seventh day, Sivan 14, 534 according to the small count [1774].
His soul is tied into the bundle of life. "

literature

  • Louis Ginzberg , Israel Berlin: Art. Brandeis, Moses. In: Jewish Encyclopedia III, p. 853.
  • Abraham Wedell : History of the Jewish community in Düsseldorf. In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch (contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine) 3 (1888) [special edition: History of the city of Düsseldorf in twelve treatises. Festschrift for the 600th anniversary, ed. vom Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein], pp. 149–254, p. 229.
  • Bastian Fleermann : Marginalization and Emancipation. Everyday Jewish culture in the Duchy of Berg 1779–1847. (= Bergische Forschungen 30), Neustadt 2007.
  • Bastian Fleermann: “… the best rabbinate in Germany.” Biographical sketches of the Düsseldorf rabbis from 1706 to 1941. In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch 81 (2011), pp. 111–175

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brandeis, Moses , in: Jewish Encyclopedia
  2. ↑ Moritz Grünwald: Jungbunzlauer Rabbiner , separate print from the Jüdisches Centralblatt , Prague n.d.
  3. ^ Family book of the Rabbi Rosenberg family, Düsseldorf in the Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (description and digitized version)  in the German Digital Library
  4. ↑ Monthly for the History and Science of Judaism , Volume 37, 1893, p. 386

See also

personal data
SURNAME Brandeis, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandeis ha Levi, Jacob bar Moshe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century or 18th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1774
Place of death Dusseldorf