{"id":1004,"date":"2016-12-20T21:11:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T01:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.papaworx.com\/Book\/?page_id=1004"},"modified":"2016-12-20T21:11:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T01:11:19","slug":"1-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stuehlingen.online\/Book\/?page_id=1004","title":{"rendered":"1-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Standard\"> Two further, rather esoteric sources deserve to be mentioned as well. Both are cited in an article by David Kaufmann,<span class=\"Footnote_20_Reference\"><span class=\"Footnote_20_anchor\" title=\"Footnote: Kaufmann, \u201cZur Geschichte der Familie Dreyfuss,\u201d 000. &lt;PG. #?&gt;\"><a id=\"body_ftn25\" href=\"#ftn25\">25<\/a><\/span> which was dismissed by Rosenthal.<span class=\"Footnote_20_Reference\"><span class=\"Footnote_20_anchor\" title=\"Footnote: Rosenthal, Berthold Rosenthal Collection, reel 13, frames 689\u201390.\"><a id=\"body_ftn26\" href=\"#ftn26\">26<\/a><\/span><\/span> The first is an obscure letter written in rough Latin and sent on March 7, 1659 by Jean-George Hurter, a publisher in Schaffhausen, to Jean Buxdorf Jr., a professor in Basel and collector of rare Hebrew manuscripts, mentioning that a series of valuable tomes were for sale in St\u00fchlingen by the widow of a learned Jew who had died recently.<span class=\"Footnote_20_Reference\"><span class=\"Footnote_20_anchor\" title=\"Footnote: Johannes Georgius Hurter to Johannes Buxdorf, March 7, 1659, MS G I 63, fol. 130, University Library Basel.\"><a id=\"body_ftn27\" href=\"#ftn27\">27<\/a><\/span><\/span> The widow was in dire straits and urgently needed money. Kaufmann inferred (falsely, as it turns out) that these were the books of the \u201cGreat Maharam Weil of St\u00fchlingen\u201d and were for sale by his widow. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Standard\"> The second document is a handwritten, Hebrew list of seventeen circumcisions performed for members of an extended family between 1701 and 1704 in the local Jewish communities in and around St\u00fchlingen. Kaufmann\u2019s article contains a transcript of that memo; the original, which appears to be lost, was apparently a single page stuck to the end of some sheet music celebrating the inauguration of a synagogue from the private library of Rabbi Abraham Merzbacher.<span class=\"Footnote_20_Reference\"><span class=\"Footnote_20_anchor\" title=\"Footnote: Merzbacher and Rabbinovicz, Ohel Avraham.\"><a id=\"body_ftn28\" href=\"#ftn28\">28<\/a><\/span> The list indicates place, date, and first names of each child and father. Of the seventeen boys four came from Lengnau, four from St\u00fchlingen, three from Endingen, one each from Tiengen, Wangen, and Donaueschingen. Of the final three, no community is stated. Only one father in the list (#15) exhibits the family name Weil (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u05d5\u05d5\u05d9\u05d9\u05dc<\/span>), but his place of residence is not reported. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Footnote\"><span class=\"footnodeNumber\"><a id=\"ftn25\" class=\"Footnote_20_Symbol\" href=\"#body_ftn25\">25<\/a><\/span>Kaufmann, \u201cZur Geschichte der Familie Dreyfuss,\u201d 424.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Footnote\"><span class=\"footnodeNumber\"><a id=\"ftn26\" class=\"Footnote_20_Symbol\" href=\"#body_ftn26\">26<\/a><\/span>Rosenthal, Berthold Rosenthal Collection, reel 13, frames 689\u201390.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Footnote\"><span class=\"footnodeNumber\"><a id=\"ftn27\" class=\"Footnote_20_Symbol\" href=\"#body_ftn27\">27<\/a><\/span>Johannes Georgius Hurter to Johannes Buxdorf, March 7, 1659, MS G I 63, fol. 130, University Library Basel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Footnote\"><span class=\"footnodeNumber\"><a id=\"ftn28\" class=\"Footnote_20_Symbol\" href=\"#body_ftn28\">28<\/a><\/span>Merzbacher and Rabbinovicz, &#8220;<span class=\"T20\">Ohel Avraham<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two further, rather esoteric sources deserve to be mentioned as well. Both are cited in an article by David Kaufmann,25 which was dismissed by Rosenthal.26 The first is an obscure letter written in rough Latin and sent on March 7, 1659 by Jean-George Hurter, a publisher in Schaffhausen, to Jean Buxdorf Jr., a professor in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"new_page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuehlingen.online\/Book\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuehlingen.online\/Book\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuehlingen.online\/Book\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuehlingen.online\/Book\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuehlingen.online\/Book\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuehlingen.online\/Book\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuehlingen.online\/Book\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuehlingen.online\/Book\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}