Pelta Moses Epstein

Pelta Moses Epstein , until 1809 Moses Liebhold , ( 1745 in Offenbach am Main - April 22, 1821 in Bruchsal ) was a regional rabbi in the Speyer Monastery , based in Bruchsal.

Epstein called himself Moses Liebhold until 1809, when the Jews in Baden had to take on hereditary family names. During his training, he attended Talmud schools in Frankfurt am Main , Fürth and Prague and was then tutor to the Elissen family in Frankfurt. Then he was a Talmud teacher and sub-rabbi at the Model Foundation in Karlsruhe .

He married Veilchen Worms (1750-1829). When he was then dismissed, the Oberamt confirmed him in his position to use the Oberlandesrabbiers Tia Weil .

Around 1790 he took up the post as regional rabbi in Bruchsal. The construction of the synagogue fell during his term of office in 1802, and as a result of the dissolution of the Speyer Monastery, from 1809 he was only responsible for the Jewish communities on the right bank of the Rhine, especially in the Bruchsal area. Pelta Moses Epstein was the father of Naphtali Epstein , who was secretary of the Upper Council of the Israelites Bathing for many years , and of Abraham Epstein, who administered the Bruchsal rabbinate after his death.

With his brother-in-law, Hirsch Moses Wormser , he ran a printing press in Rastatt , later in Karlsruhe, which published prayer books, Bible editions and other works in Hebrew .

literature

• Berthold Rosenthal : Home history of the Baden Jews from their historical appearance to the present. Bühl 1927 (Reprint: Magstadt bei Stuttgart 1981), p. 148, ISBN 3-7644-0092-7 ).
• Jürgen Stude: History of the Jews in Bruchsal. Publications on the history of the city of Bruchsal . tape 23 . regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-441-8 .
• Entry EPSTEIN, Pelta Moses. 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 , pp. 285 f.