Yehuda Harburger

Jehuda Harburger (born January 16, 1809 in Bayreuth ; died February 4, 1854 in Reckendorf , Upper Franconia ) was a German rabbi .

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Jehuda Harburger was the eldest son of the sealing wax manufacturer Isaac Harburger and Babett Bachmann. In 1822 he went to the yeshiva in Fürth . After graduating from high school, he attended the Polytechnic School in Munich from October 1832 , and also the University of Munich in 1832/33 . In 1834 he passed the rabbinical state examination in Bayreuth. He had two rabbinical diplomas.

Harburger was a substitute for Rabbi Joseph Aub in Bayreuth. In 1849 he became a rabbi and preacher in Güstrow , Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From 1853 to 1854 he was district rabbi in Reckendorf, Upper Franconia. There he died of typhus after a year of marriage.

Fonts (selection)

• Massächäth Däräch 'Äras Zūta'. A collection of the purest and most core moral and decency teachings of the oldest rabbis as a worthy appendix to the sayings of the fathers and as an excellent little moral book for the Isr. Youth. Edited with a faithful translation and explanatory notes. Self-published, Bayreuth 1839.

Literature (selection)

• Klaus Guth: Jewish rural communities in Upper Franconia (1800-1942). A historical-topographical handbook. Bamberg 1988, p. 283.
• Entry HARBURGER, Jehuda. 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. 415, no. 668.
• Nicole Grom: Documentation of the Jewish cemetery in Reckendorf. History - funeral culture - existence. Volume II, dissertation, Bamberg 2012, p. 324 ff.