Although massive anti-Semitic propaganda was also being carried out in Ma&<bach, local farmers continued to maintain their contacts with Jewish cattle dealers and some Jewish businesses, e.g. the open trading company Heidelberger (plan no. 85 ½) and the furrier Max Eberhardt (house no. 26), were able to carry on their business until October 1938.

The Jewish community leaders at that time were Samuel Eberhard, A. Friedmann, F. Heidelberger and A. Frank.

In the early 1930s, Abraham, Frank and Hermann Heidelberger formed the community council.

During the imperial era and the Weimar Republic, the Jewish residents were well integrated into the social life of the village. They were represented in the local associations and were involved in the fire department. Samuel Eberhardt, the head of the religious council, was elected to the municipal council. During the First World War, two men from the Jewish community of Maäbach lost their lives. Their names are inscribed on the bronze plaque at the war memorial for the fallen of the First World War (Neue Strasse).

 1914 MARX. MORITZ. 15.5.

1916 DR. GOLDSTEIN. MX. 16.9.

The Jewish ritual bath, which had long been installed in the cellar of the semi-detached house (plan no. 159, today Poppenlauerer Straße 5), had to be renovated by order of the government in 1825 and was fitted with a boiler. In 1878, repairs were needed again, this time to the chimney, but due to a dispute with the owner of the house, they could not be carried out until 1882.

Hirsch Goldstein ran a private „Israelitisches Unterrichts-Institut“ in his house (plan no. 161, today Poppenlauerer Straße 9), where Christian and Jewish boys from the age of 11 were taught foreign languages and commercial subjects, among other things. After Goldstein moved away, the religious community acquired the building in 1895 and set up its Israelite elementary school there. The old school building was sold.

In 1717, the knightly Jews acquired a building (house no. 45, today Neue Strasse 1) for their rabbi. The ritual bath was also housed here.

The founders of the "Gebrüder Stein " segroßhandlung " were the brothers Alexander and Sigmund (Seligmann ) Stein. Alexander Stein was born in Unsleben on April 11, 1848. He was married to Clara Schwab, born on January 17, 1846 in Heidingsfeld. The couple had nine children. In 1876 the family moved to Augsburg. Sigmund (Seligmann) Bein was born on August 24, 1854 in Unsleben. He married Rosa Sondhelm von Kleinlangheim in Würzburg in 1878. The couple had four children. Just two days after moving to Augsburg, Alexander Bein registered the joint wholesale business "Gebr.