List of the Jewish Bishops of Worms

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The list of the Jewish bishops of Worms contains the board members of the administration of the political Jewish community of Worms from the Middle Ages to the end of the state independence of the imperial city of Worms at the end of the 18th century.

context

At the head of the community was a council of 12 members ("Parnassim") who co-opted . He elected the community leader, "the jew bishop of Wormß" ( Latin : "episcopus iudeorum") from among his ranks. The election had to be confirmed by the (Christian) bishop of Worms as city lord and sworn in the new incumbent, which usually happened in the bishop's court . The Judenrat and the office of Jewish bishop existed until the imperial city of Worms passed to France as a result of the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century.

list

time Jewish bishop Remarks
around 1090 Solomon ben Samson ben Eliakim He is named in the privilege of Emperor Heinrich IV for the Jews and the other citizens of Worms from February 19, 1090.
after 1648-1703 Samuel Oppenheimer Court factor Emperor Leopold I.
1703-1715 Mendel Menachem Emanuel Oppenheimer Son of the predecessor
1715-1742 Aron Levi Frankel
1743-1753 Bear Emanuel Oppenheimer
1753-1759 Dr. med David Cannstatt
1759-1792 Machol (Michael) Gernsheim
1792-1797 Vacancy during the French occupation of Worms
February 9, 1797 Heart Abenheim

literature

  • Ismar Elbogen u. a. (Hg): Germania Judaica 1: From the oldest times to 1238 . Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1963.
  • Guido Kisch: The legal status of the Worms Jews in the Middle Ages . In: Ernst Róth: Festschrift for the rededication of the Old Synagogue in Worms . Ner Tamid Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1961, pp. 173-181.
  • Fritz Reuter : Wamaisa. 1000 years of Jews in Worms . 3. Edition. Self-published, Worms 2009. ISBN 978-3-8391-0201-5

Remarks

  1. ↑ This title was created in analogy to the secular power of the Christian bishop, who also exercised the powers of the king locally in the High Middle Ages (Kisch: Die Rechtsstellung , p. 181).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kisch: The legal position , p. 177.
  2. ^ Kisch: The legal position , p. 177.
  3. ^ Reuter: Warmaisa. 1000 years , p. 24.
  4. ^ Kisch: The legal position , p. 182.
  5. ↑ Reuter: Warmasia - das Jewish Worms , p. 667.
  6. ↑ Reuter: Elnbogen, p. 439; Warmaisa. 1000 years , p. 52.
  7. ^ Reuter: Warmaisa. 1000 years , p. 140.
  8. ^ Reuter: Warmaisa. 1000 years , p. 140.
  9. ^ Reuter: Warmaisa. 1000 years , p. 140.
  10. ^ Reuter: Warmaisa. 1000 years , p. 140.
  11. ^ Reuter: Warmaisa. 1000 years , p. 140.
  12. ^ Reuter: Warmaisa. 1000 years , pp. 140f.
  13. ^ Reuter: Warmaisa. 1000 years , p. 141.
  14. ^ Reuter: Warmaisa. 1000 years , p. 141.