Jewish School (Weimar)

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There was no religious school in Weimar. For the first time, and only temporarily, a rabbi was employed in 1839/40 to teach the children the Jewish faith: Dr. Avraham Hirsh Levisohn, tutor to the Elkan family. It was not until the turn of the century that there were renewed activities to establish regular Jewish religious education. The Israelite Religious Association, founded in 1903, was dedicated to this purpose. From 1909 to 1913 there was a religious school with 10 children, later still small group instruction.

Weimar Jewish Religious Association

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The statutes of the Jewish Religious Association state that the aim of the association is the preparation of the High Holidays and the implementation of religious education for children. The first chairman was the merchant Rudolf Sachs, from 1911 he was followed by the merchant Salomon (Sally) Kauffmann, after his death by the merchant Israel Berlowitz. The association was a member of the German-Israelite Community Federation. In 1925 every fourth of the 105 inhabitants belonged to it. Proposals to build a synagogue were put aside before 1914.

Jewish school (Hildburghausen)

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To take care of religious duties of the community was employed a teacher, who was also active as a prayer leader and shochet. In 1864, a private Jewish house was converted into a schoolhouse with a teacher's apartment. At the Lehrerseminar in Hildburghausen since the 1st half of the 19th century over several decades Jewish teachers were also trained.

 

Jewish Women's Association (Bleicherode)

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The Israelite Women's Association of Bleicherode was founded in 1916. Ida Rothenberg, who lived at Burgstraße 7, was the chairwoman of the association in Bleicherode in 1924-32, whose purpose was to support the needy. Funerals also fell within his remit. At the time of Rothenberg's leadership, the association counted 30-40 members.

Bauerbach (Grave Field)

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In Bauerbach existed a Jewish community until 1938/41. Their emergence goes back to the time of the 17th/18th century . However, the oldest reference to Jews in the place is only a grave inscription of the Bauerbach cemetery from 1722. 

In 1782 the Jew Mattich in Bauerbach, whom the poet Friedrich Schiller liked to meet during his stay in Bauerbach, and Jonas Oberländer, whom Schiller rescued from a life-threatening situation, are mentioned by name.