Jakob Warisch

Jakob Warisch (born in Hamburg ; died on April 30, 1808 in Altona / Elbe , Duchy of Holstein , Kingdom of Denmark ) was a German rabbi .

Jakob Warisch was the son of Zwi Hirsch Warisch from Hamburg. He was a student of Rafael Kohen in Altona. In 1776 he became rabbi at the Hamburg Klaus von Jechiel Walich. From 1789 he was Dajan and Klausner in Altona.

Warisch was married to Gella Hahn, daughter of the Dajan Joseph Hahn. Her son Paltiel Walich (died 1830) had a job after his father at the Klaus von Jechiel Walich.

Publications (selection)

• Preface to the Divrē Dāwid. 1794.
• Calendar for 1802.
• License to practice. Altona 1794 in: Leopold Löwenstein: Mafteah ha-haskāmōth. Index Approval. Frankfurt am Main 1923; Reprint Hildesheim and New York 2003, p. 201.

literature

• Eduard Duckesz : Sefär Hachmē. AHŪ. kōlel tōl edōth wenūssah massevōth ha-dayyānīm weyōševē battē ha-midrāšōth ūmehabberē sefārīm, fīlo'zo'fe'n ūfayyetānīm šä-yaševū 'šä-yaševū' ōmās e-’' [Chachme AHW: Biographies and gravestone inscriptions of the Dajanim, authors and the other outstanding men of the three communities Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek, Hebrew.] No. 86, Hebrew p. 100, German p. 35, Hamburg 1908.
• Entry WARISCH, Jakob. 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, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , p. 879.