Land rabbinate for the province of Birkenfeld
Map of the Principality of Birkenfeld ( Richard Andree , 1881)
The land rabbinate for the province of Birkenfeld was established in the Principality of Birkenfeld as the supreme organization of the Jewish population in the exclave of the Grand Duchy on the left bank of the Rhine and later the Free State of Oldenburg in the Nahe area .
The state rabbi had his seat in Hoppstädten .
State rabbis
- until 1832: Samson Felsenstein
- 1832–1833: Löb Ettlinger
- 1835–1836: Elias Grünebaum
- 1837–1841: Bernhard Wechsler
- 1842–1847: David Einhorn
- 1887–1889: Israel Goldschmidt
- 1891–1901: Israel Goldschmidt
- 1901-1905: Julius Lewit
- 1905-1910: Sally Baron
- 1910–1911: Siegfried Grzymisch
- 1911–1914: Ferdinand Straßburger
- 1915-1919: Julius Cohn
- 1919–1938: Alexander Lewin
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).