Bacharach Family
My Family is related to 2 separate ( ? ) Bacharach families.
Bacharach from Prague
One is that of Rabbi Yair Chaiim Bacharach to who we are related via the
Heymann family to Gerber then Oppenheimer Family from Heidelberg (the family of his wife).
Bacharach
Family from Kassel, Hessen
The family is that of my Grand Mother from Kassel, Bertie Babette
Bacharach and her father Solly and Grandfather Baruch Bacharach.
The Bacharach Family first appears in Hessen in the Frankfurt am Main
from 1391
My GrandMother's Bacharach Family
Tradition
has it that all Bacharach families came from the town of Bacharach on the
Rhine river district of Coblenz.
A name frequent among German Jews. From the twelfth, or at any rate from the
fifteenth century, the name Bacharach, in various
spellings—as Bacharach, Bachrach, Bachrich, etc.—is found among the
Ashkenazim in all parts of Europe. Although all individuals bearing the name
hardly form one family, the name merely indicates
Bacharach was passed through by the Crusaders in the 13th Century, who massacred
the Jews they found there. On April 19, 1283, twenty-six Jews were murdered
there, among them the boy Hezekiah, whose father, Jacob, had been killed at
Lorch in 1276. In 1287 the Bacharach Jews were
subjected to persecutions caused by the murder of Werner, who was made a
martyr of the Church. This persecution has been described by Heine in his
"Rabbi von Bacharach." In 1337 the mob,
under the leadership of
Of the Jewish scholars of Bacharach, records of
the second Crusade (1146) mention Alexander ben Moses, Mar Abraham ben Samuel,
and Mar Kalonymus bar Mordecai. These, with their households, sought refuge in
the castle of Stahleck, where they were killed. Their remains were brought to
Mayence and interred there.
Another famous member of our family was Rabbi Yair Chaiim Bacharach who also lived in Bacharach city.