Michel Speyer

Michel Speyer (born around 1740 in Frankfurt am Main ; died on May 27, 1822 in Dessau , Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau ) was a German rabbi .

Michel Speyer was the son of Mendel Speyer. From 1779 to 1793 he was Rabbi von Gelnhausen . Around 1796 he became an Upper Hessian state rabbi in Friedberg , and in July 1799 an Anhalt state rabbi in Dessau. In Dessau in 1813 he came into conflict with the reformer supporters David Fränkel and Gotthold Salomon of the Herzogliche Franzschule . Around 1814 he became a Dajan in Hamburg . In 1819 he was one of the spokesmen for the Orthodox in the temple dispute there against his brother-in-law Lazarus Riesser.

Speyer was married to Schönchen Oppenheim (died 1784). In his second marriage he was married to Rachel Cohen (died 1798), daughter of the Altona chief rabbi Rafael Cohen and widow of the chief rabbi Hirsch Janow from Fürth.

Publications

• Interpretations of the Talmud in the responses by Rafael Cohen: Wešāv ha-Kohen. Altona 1792.
• License to practice medicine , Hamburg 1814 in: Leopold Löwenstein: Mafteah ha-haskāmōth. Index Approval. Frankfurt am Main 1923; Reprint Hildesheim and New York 2003, p. 191.

literature

• 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. 394.
• Israel Tobiah Eisenstadt: Da'ath Qedōšīm. Zichrōnōth letōledōth ha-mišpāhōth ha-mityahaśōth leha-qedōšīm šä-nahargū beRōzīna 'ībišenōth 5417-5419. Edited with notes. by Samuel Wiener, St. Petersburg 1897–98, p. 105.
• 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 in the 24 temūnōt wesiyyendīmographien [ Gravestone inscriptions of the rabbis of the three communities Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbeck, Heb.] Krakau 1903, Hebrew p. 105 f., German p. 36 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. 825.