Bacharach Family

Mendlen Isaac Lauchheim-Bacharach; also known as: “Mendlin”, “Menachem ben Jizchak”, or Mendel Bacharach of the Knoblauch or Mendel “Jotem” Bacharach. Birthdate: around 1530 at Lauchheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. Death: August 23, 1599, at Frankfurt am Main, Place of Burial: Battonnstraße Jewish cemetery, Frankfurt am Main. He was the son of Jitshak zu Lauchheim, also known as Isaac Bacharach zu Lauchheim and his wife Brendel Bacharach aus Burgau. Mendlen Isaac married Edel / Udel Weissenberg. Their son was Samuel Mendel Bacharach (below). Edel was the daughter of Moses and Gutlin Weissenburg, zum Kessel. Sometimes Edel is written Udel. The grave shown right is of Mendlen and his wife Edel (Weissenberg) Bacharach. All being the direct ancestors of the Reis family. Details about this grave can be found at the Steinheim Institute’s Epidat – Epigraphische Datenbank

Samuel (Schmul) Mendel Bacharach, son of the above Mendlen Isaac and Edel. Samuel was the husband of Henlen Bloch (below). Birth estimated to be about 1584. Death: May 28, 1628, at Frankfurt am Main. Place of Burial: Battonnstraße Jewish cemetery, Frankfurt am Main. He married Henlen Bloch (below). Samuel was a direct ancestor of Moritz Reis.

Samuel Mendel Bacharach’s wife was Henlen Bloch. She was born circa 1584. She died December 26, 1643 at Frankfurt am Main. Henlen’s father was: Jacob Bloch (Jükkel Bloh), zu Bruchsal. He was born circa 1550 at Bruchsal, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. Death: circa 1610 Frankfurt am Main. The daughter of Samuel and Henlen (Bloch) Bacharach, Edel Bacharach (1605 – 1668), married Simon Wolf Oppenheim[er] (see Oppenheimer family). All are the direct ancestors of Moritz Reis.

Abraham Bacharach, zum Drachen also known as: “Awram ben Schmuel Bacharach”, “Awram Drach” Birthdate: 1611 Birthplace: Frankfurt am Main. Death: August 14, 1687 at Frankfurt am Main. Place of Burial: Battonnstraße Jewish cemetery, Frankfurt am Main. Immediate family: Son of Samuel Mendel Bacharach and Henlen (Bloch) Bacharach (above). Brother of Edel (Bacharach) Oppenheim. Abraham was the Nth great uncle of Moritz Reis. He was the most prominent member of the Drach family, one of the richest and most respected Frankfurt Jewish families. Isidor Kracauer, the chronicler of the Frankfurt Jews, described him as follows: “His breadth of vision, his commercial talent and ability to make best use of favorable times, his skill in handling people and issues, and not least his punctilious honesty with its absolute rejection of any unfair profit gained him the absolute confidence of high and low alike in both Jewish and Christian society. His name was highly valued on the Amsterdam and Hamburg exchanges and at the courts of many neighboring princes whose financial needs he supplied as their court factor.” Drach was frequently given important commissions by the Jewish community and was elected to its highest offices as “master builder” and treasurer. He was appointed plenipotentiary on behalf of the Frankfurt Jews in important negotiations at the imperial court in Vienna. (From http://judengasse.de/ehtml/P009.htm.)

Isaac Bacharach, zum Lindwurm, also known as: “Itsek Luts zum Lindwurm”, “Jizchak Bacharach” Birthdate: circa 1540, Death: July 23, 1635 at Frankfurt am Main. Place of Burial: Battonnstraße Jewish cemetery, Frankfurt am Main. He was the brother of the above Samuel Mendel Lauchheim-Bacharach and the son of the above Mendlen Isaac Lauchheim-Bacharac and Edel (Weissenberg) Bacharach. Isaac Bacharach was the Nth great uncle of Moritz Reis.  Isaac Bacharach, zum Lindwurm’s wife was Kinnel Ballin the daughter of Elias Moses Ballin.

Rabbi Abraham Samuel Bacharach Birthdate about 1575 Birthplace: Drachen, Germany Death: May 26, 1615 Gernsheim, Darmstadt, Hesse. Place of Burial: Alsbach, Rhineland-Palatinate. Immediate Family: Son of Isaac Bacharach, zum Lindwurm (above) also known as Mendel Bacharach, zu Lauchheim his brother was Mendel Isaac Lauchheim-Bacharach. On the charts below, only his father is shown. His uncle would have been Samuel Mendel Bacharach. He would therefore have been a cousin Nth times removed of Moritz and Jonas Reis’. He seems to have come from the city of Worms, but is first met with at Prague, where, in 1600, he married Eva, the granddaughter of the chief rabbi of Prague, Judah Loew ben Bezalel. He was rabbi in Turbin, Kolin (Bohemia), and in Pohrlitz (Moravia); and was subsequently called to the ministry of the very important congregation of Worms. One of the frequent riots against the Jews, instigated by the guilds, caused him to flee from the city. He died during exile, and was buried in Alsbach. Bacharach was respected for his learning and piety. He took a firm stand against the rabbis of Frankfurt, who arrogated to themselves preeminence over all the other rabbis of Germany. A few of his responsa were published by his grandson, Jair Ḥayyim, in the collected “Ḥut ha-Shani” (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1679). Bacharach was the author of an essay on the Jewish calendar, a number of apologetic works against Christianity, liturgical poems, and casuistic treatises. Some of his works are still extant in manuscript.

Gravestone of Elchanan zur roten Rose progenitor of the Rothschild family and the great uncle of Moritz Reis. Elchanan’s brother was Schmuel Bacharach who was Moritz Reis’s 7^th Great Grandfather. Elchanan died on August 25, 1550 at Frankfurt am Main and was buried at the Battonnstraße Jewish cemetery, Frankfurt.