Nordstraße 38
63450 Hanau
Germany
Rabbis of the Jewish community in the 17th/18th centuries were:
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- until 1609 Rabbi Jacob Kohen (d. 1609),
- until about 1615 Rabbi Elia (ben Moshe) Loanz ("Baalschem"; b. 1565 in Frankfurt, d. 1636 in Worms)
- c. 1617 / 1636 Rabbi Menachem ben Elkanan
- c. 1650 Rabbi Jair Chaim Bacharach (later in Koblenz and Worms)
- 1668 to 1677 Rabbi Jakob Simon Bosnis (from Prague, previously rabbi in Mainz; founded a yeshiva in Hanau in 1670)
- around 1690 Rabbi Haggai Enoch Fränkel
- c. 1704 Rabbi Meier Elsass
- c. 1720 Rabbi Moses Brod
- c. 1760 Rabbi Uri Shraga Phoebus Helmann (died 1771 in Metz)
- from 1760 to 1791 Rabbi Jakob Benjamin Kronstadt (from Krotoschin, died 1791 after 32 years of service in Hanau): was first rabbi in Oborniki, from 1760 provincial rabbi of the county of Hanau.
- c. 1785 Rabbi Shemaiah Kron (d. 1825 in Hanau), was dajan in Hanau and rabbi of the rural communities in the county, also Talmud teacher.
The community was the seat of a provincial rabbinate since 1823. As rabbis worked in the 19th/20th century:
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- 1795 to 1830 Rabbi Mose Tobias (Tubia) Sontheimer (1824 first provincial rabbi in Hanau)
- 1833 to 1836 Rabbi Moses Schwarzschild (rabbinate administrator)
- 1835 to 1882 Rabbi Samson Felsenstein
- 1884 to 1901 Rabbi Dr. Markus Koref
- 1901 to 1920 Rabbi Dr. Salomon Bamberger
- 1920 to 1938 Rabbi Dr. Hirsch Gradenwitz.
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