Mannheim

Mannheim, a city in Baden in southwestern Germany, had a notable Jewish community with the Lemle Moses Klaus, a learning and study foundation established in 1708. Rabbi Yaakov Ettlinger, author of the Talmud commentary Aruch LaNer and a leader of German Orthodoxy, served as district rabbi seated in Mannheim from 1826 and founded a yeshiva there that trained future leaders including Samson Raphael Hirsch.

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