Isaac Bernays [SEP] place of death
Isaac Bernays
Isaac Bernays (; ; 29 September 1792, Weisenau – 1 May 1849, Hamburg) was chief rabbi in Hamburg.
Life.
Bernays was born in Weisenau (now part of Mainz). He was the son of Jacob Gera, a boarding house keeper at Mainz, and an elder brother of Adolphus Bernays. After having finished his studies at the University of Würzburg, in which city he had been also a disciple of the Talmudist Rabbi Abraham Bing, he went to Munich as private tutor in the
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