Rabbi Josua Moses Falkenau

Rabbi in Fürth. Falkenau was also a jeweler and owned a glass and mirror store in Fürth Starting in 1804, Falkenau began serving as a judge in rabbinic court (Dayan) and as a faculty member at the Fürth Yeshiva. Given his wealth, he chose not to draw a salary.

Source: Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach, Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbiner, vol. 1, Die Rabbiner der Emanzipationszeit (Munich: Saur, 2004), 292-293.

Photo of gravestone above from Gisela Naomi Blume, Der alte jüdische Friedhof in Fürth, 1607-20017. Geschichte—Riten—Dokumentation (2007). This gravestone no longer exists--the photograph above is from 1933.

Josua Moses Falkenau became an assistant rabbi (Rabbinatsbeisitzer) in 1804 and served also as a Rabbinic administrator under Salamon Kohn, who served as head rabbi of Fürth from 1789 until 1819. Falkenau studied under Kohn and Mosche Höchheimer and later served on the faculty of the Fürth yeshiva.

Source: Leopold Löwenstein, Zur Geschichte der Juden in Fürth (Hildesheim, Olms: 1974), a reprint of materials published in the Jahrbuch der Jüdisch-Literarischen Gesellschaft between 1908 and 1914.