Moses Abraham Brandeis

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Moses Abraham Brandeis (born 1765 in Fürth ; died on September 13, 1819 in Bingen ) was a German rabbi .

Live and act

Moses Abraham Brandeis was the son of Simon Halevi Brandeis and grandson of Jacob bar Moshe Brandeis ha Levi . One of his ancestors was the Maharal . He married Hanna Heller, daughter of the Dürkheim rabbi Abraham bar Jakob-Koppel Heller. After his death in 1794 he was his successor as Leiningen regional rabbi in Dürkheim. Brandeis took part in the "Great Sanhedrin" under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806 in Paris. On July 5, 1809, he was sworn in on his decisions and subordinated to the chief rabbi in Mainz . As the successor to Gumbrich Mehler, who died in 1808, he became rabbi in Bingen.

Brandeis is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Bingen (tombstone no. 420A).

Literature (selection)

  • Siegmund Salfeld : Pictures from the past of the Jewish. Mainz municipality. Commemoration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the inauguration day of the main synagogue in Mainz. Mainz 1903, p. 72.
  • Salomon Bamberger: Historical reports on the Jews of the city and the former principality of Aschaffenburg. Strasbourg 1900, p. 61.
  • Richard Grünfeld: On the history of the Jews in Bingen a. Rhine. Bingen 1905, p. 27.
  • Leopold Löwenstein : On the history of the rabbis in Mainz. In: Yearbook of the Jewish-Literary Society in Frankfurt am Main. 3, Frankfurt am Main 1905, p. 230.
  • Leopold Löwenstein: On the history of the Jews in Fürth. Second part: rabbinate assessors and other eminent personalities. In: Yearbook of the Jewish-Literary Society in Frankfurt am Main. 6, Frankfurt am Main 1908, p. 81.
  • Paul Arnsberg : The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning - fall - new beginning . Volume 2. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7973-0213-4 , p. 19.
  • Entry BRANDEIS, Moses Abraham. 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, No. 0184, pp. 206f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Grünfeld: On the history of the Jews in Bingen a. Rhine. Bingen 1905, p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Brandeis, Moses Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1819
Place of death Bingen