Josef Hirsch Janow

Josef Hirsch Janow , called "Hä-Hārīf" (born 1733 in Lissa , Greater Poland ; died on November 13, 1785 in Fürth ) was a German rabbi .

Hirsch Janow was the son of Abraham Janow, who probably came from Janów near Lublin . Hirsch Janow was a rabbi in Zülz , Upper Silesia . On 31 August 1777 he was chief rabbi in Poznan , beginning in 1778. Chief Rabbi in Fuerth.

In 1779 he signed the Fürth ban against the Mendelssohn Bible.

Salomon Maimon was his student.

Hirsch Janow was married to Rachel (died 1798), the daughter of the Altona chief rabbi Rafael Cohen . After Janow's death Rachel married Michel Speyer , Dajan in Hamburg .

Publications

• Talmud interpretations in the responses by Mose Kornik from Flatow , Tōrath Mošäh. ; in Bendit Wesel: Meqōr Bārūch. P. 17.
• Treatises in the appendix to Rafael Cohen: Wešāv ha-Kohen. Altona 1792.
• Halachic correspondence with Ezekiel Landau in his Nōdā 'bĪ-hūdāh. I, YD 69.
• 13 approvals, Fürth 1778–1784, in: Leopold Löwenstein: Mafteah ha-haskāmōth. Index Approval. Frankfurt am Main 1923; Reprint Hildesheim and New York 2003, p. 91.

Literature (selection)

• Heinrich Graetz : History of the Jews from the oldest times to the present. Volume XI, Leipzig 1869; 3rd edition edited by Marcus Brann , Leipzig o. J. [1893], p. 11, p. 557 f.
• Eduard Duckesz : IwāhleMōšāv [Ps. 132,13], kōlel tōledōth ha-rabbānīm šä-yaševū 'al kise' ha-rabbānūt šäl šeloš qehillōth 'AHW'Altōna', Ha'mbūrg, ūWa'ndsbe'q 'contains' q' in the 24 temūnōt wesiyyendīmographien [ Gravestone inscriptions of the rabbis of the three communities Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbeck, Heb.] Krakau 1903, Hebrew p. 72.
• Leopold Löwenstein : On the history of the Jews in Fürth. Part one: the rabbinate. In: Yearbook of the Jewish-Literary Society in Frankfurt am Main. 6, Frankfurt am Main 1908, p. 201 f.
• Entry SPEYER, Michel. 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. 477, no. 0806.