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Moses Reiss ( Hebrew משה רייס; also: Moses Reiss , December 11, 1802 in Karlsruhe - October 8, 1878 in Breisach am Rhein ) was district rabbi in Baden .

Moses Reiss was the son of the rabbinical scholar and trader Seligmann Reiss and the Frumet. From 1822 to 1824 he attended the lyceum and yeshiva of Rabbi Ascher Löw in Karlsruhe . From the summer semester of 1825 to the summer semester of 1826, he studied at the University of Würzburg . In 1838 he became a district rabbi in Breisach . Reiss was a participant in the second rabbinical meeting. He was the last rabbi based in Breisach. After his death, the Breisach district rabbinate was dissolved.

Moses Reiss was married to Babette, born Burger (1830–1890), daughter of Nathan Burger. The family lived in Judengasse (today Rheintorstraße), where a plaque commemorates Rabbi Reis at house number 22. During the Franco-Prussian War Babette worked as a nurse, for which she later received a medal. Reiss and his wife were buried in the new Jewish cemetery in Breisach.

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Individual evidence

  1. Hans David Blum: Jews in Breisach. From the beginning to the Shoah. 12th - 19th century. Vol. 1, ed. by Erhard Roy Wiehn, Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 1998, p. 175.
  2. ^ Kai Kricheldorff: Breisach commemorates two special Jewish women in the city , Badische Zeitung , September 9, 2014.