As in other communities, schooling for Jewish children in Halberstadt was still limited to traditional religious content (Talmud Torah) until the end of the 18th century. They were taught in private homes or in the Klaussynagoge in Rosenwinkel 18. On the basis of a private foundation of the respected Halberstadt merchant Hirsch (Zwi) Köslin (d. 1795), also called Hirsch Isaac Borchert, the general education Jewish school "Hascharath Zwi" was finally founded in May 1796.

The synagogue was built in 1895, after the land was purchased in 1894. The construction and the land cost a total of about 90,000 marks. "The community was therefore entirely dependent on its own help and it was decided to take out a loan of 50,000 marks against pledging the synagogue property" (Kohstall 1929, p.48). Thus, the indebted congregation was not able to hire a rabbi until 1904.

The Zeller family had to close their store at Breite Str. 18 due to boycott measures by the National Socialists and thus give up their large apartment at Askanierring 8. They moved to Havelstr. 20 in 1935. There, in their apartment on the first floor, they tried to continue their fabric business. There was a cinema called Odeum there at that time and today it is called Cineplex. In front of the Cineplex you can find today the stumbling stones of Heinrich and Fanny Zeller.

In the 1830s, the Sternberg family came to Spandau from Poznan (Poland). From 1841 they ran a department store, the business was managed by several generations. At the beginning of the 1860s it was still a small business with four employees. But by the 1920s it had developed into a larger company with 50-100 employees. In 1927, the Sternberg department store bought new business premises in Breite Straße and Fischerstraße. It was mainly active in textile trade, selling clothes, curtains, carpets and fabrics. 

Martin Joachim Reichenbach, born on March 8, 1879 in Oederan, studied law in Leipzig, then lawyer at the Labor and Regional Court of Dresden and notary in his office, Wilsdruffer Straße 32. 1933 withdrawal of the license, henceforth only private clients. He was also an emigration advisor for the Jewish community in Dresden.

In Ottersdorferstraße 1 (formerly Hildastraße 1) was the inn of Löw Simson Altschul. Altschul was about 45 years old in 1812 when he married Rösle from Muggensturm, the widow of David Guggenheimer. He himself came from Ingenheim in the Palatinate. Eight children lived in Altschul's household, including two daughters from his first marriage.

In the house Murgstraße 6, which belonged to the wealthy Daniel Kassel and who was also called "Judenschultheiß" at times, there was a Jewish school, as well as a prayer room for holding services, at least since 1720. At that time the Jewish community was too poor to be able to afford its own synagogue.