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Bibliography: Steinschneider. Cat. Bodl.; Benjaoob. Ozar ha-Scfarim Roest, Catalogue of tlic Rosenthal Library. 1. B.
ANSBACH (sometimes Anspach):
. cienttown of Middle Fran-
of Bavaria, Germany: the ca|)ital conia, situated on the Rezat. tweuty-five miles southwest of Nuremberg. There was a .Jewish settlement here in 1328, but it was annihilated by the Flagcllantsin 1349. In themunicipal records of Nuremberg, about the middle of the fourteenth century, the Jews of Ansbach are often mentioned, and a certain Joseph de Onolzbach is recorded among the creditors of John II. (1343). From the fact that a"" Judengasse " (Jews' Street) is mentioned at Ansbach between the dates of
liitil the year 107.5 the .Tews of Ansbach held divine service in a room in the house of Anton -Model: but owing to dissensions a luiinber of them separated and hel<l their services at the house of Simon Model. Through theetlorts of Isjiac Nathan the coniinuuil_v aecjuired a synagogue in 1746. Among the notables who resided here from 1456 to 14.58 the .Tudenmeister Pymann may be mentioned. About 1682 a rabbi of the name of Jeremiah Judah is mentioned. Of other rabbis there may be mentioned Samuel Zirndorfer (17.54-92). Ullniann (1792-93), IIoehheimer(1793-ls;55). Aaron B. Gruenbaum (1841-92), and Dr. P. Kohu (190(1). In 1875 there were 200 Jews in Ansbach (Engi'lbert, " Statistik des Judenthums im Deutscheu Reiche." p. 16). and in 1900. 295 out of a total population of 15,883. The congregation has a Jewish public school, attended by 40 children. The rabbinate of Ansbach has charge also of the communities in C'olniberg. Egcrihaiiscn. Jochsberg. Lehrberg, Leutershausen, Oberuzenn, and Dietenhofen. BiBLiOGRAPnT: S. Haenle, Ge»cli. tier Juden im Ehemaligen FUivtcnlhum AilsIkicIi, Ansbach, 1867. A. F.
ANSCHEL
Rjibbi at Cracow flourished in the half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Mirkebet ha-Mishneh" (The Second Chariot), a .Juda'o-German Biblical concordance, preceded by a lengthy introduction. The volume now very rare first api)eared at Cracow in 1534. but was reprinted in the sjune citv, in 1.584, under the title "Sefer R. Anschel." Woff (in "Bibl. Hebr." i. 359) confounds Anschel with Asher Anschel b. .Joseiih Mordecai of Posen. who translated into German the praj'ers for the three principal historic feasts of the Jewish year, published at Prague about the year 1000. Wolf's error wasco|)ied by Fiienn ("Keneset Yisrael." p. 147)and by Sternberg (" Geschichte der Juden in Polen." p. 184). But Zunz recognized the distinction between the two scholars, and furthermore suggested the possible identity of the latter with the grandfather of
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R. Meir Lublin (compare "Gcsammelte Werke." iii. As far as chronology is concerned, Zunz's suggestion may be correct, forR. Jleir's grandfather probably died about the year 1600. But it isdoulitful whether a man of whom R. Meir Lublin speaks as a profound and pious cabalist would occupy himself with the rendering of the liturgy into a profane language. Unfortunately, the allusion of R. Meir to his grandfather, in his responsa ("Teshubot Maharam Lublin," g 83). and a similar reference to his sanctity and cabalistic attainments by R. Jleir's son, in the preface to the same work, are all the 85, 87).
