The Jewish cemetery of Herbern exists from about 1800 and was occupied until 1927. In the cemetery at the Watervorwinkel 16 gravestones are preserved.

The cemetery experienced many desecrations and destructions during the Nazi period. He was restored after the war.

Moses Löw Rhau, born July 6, 1792 in Gunzenhausen, son of Löw and Schela Rhau, died May 27, 1868 in Gunzenhausen, married Hanna Epstein, daughter of local teacher Simon Jantof Epstein, in 1819. The couple had 14 children, some of whom emigrated to America. The family last lived in the property at Waagstraße 8, purchased in 1844, where Moses Löw Rhau ran a cookshop as well as trading in kosher goods. In addition, Moses Löw Rhau was, as far as is known, a shepherd and precentor from ca. 1851 - 1855.