The spirit of our choir is not the “Kol Demama Daka”- the mild and meek voice- that rose out of the hollow chambers that produced “churchy” music, but the fervor of German Jewry al fortissimo. Here we discuss the history of the choir and its early origins. Rav Hirsch commisioned I.M. Japhet to compose for […]

A ribbon is cut and the community dances the Torah scrolls into the new Beis Medrash.

Here is a long-awaited beginning to what I hope will be a fruitful journey to the four corners of the neighborhood and to the various German kehillos they produced. Here we learn about the first Rav of Sharei Hatikvah and his previous position in Wurzburg. The project sent me down the path of learning about […]

A moving presentation of the shul at Friedberger Anlage 5-7 interspersed with survivor testimony of my Uncle Rev. Asher Hirsch z’l. At the end more testimony lifted from Holocaust channels elsewhere on You Tube. Rabbi Jacob Wiener Z’l speaking to USHM over footage found on their site of pre-war Frankfurt.

Rev. Walter Hes passed away this last year at the age of 101. He and our beloved Mr. Hellmann o.b.m might have been the last two remaining alumni of the famed Wurzburg Seminary. This video tells the story of the students who dreamed of becoming “lehrer” and the lives they built on these shores.