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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Josel of Rosheim, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Frederic Henri Walther, Francois Antoine Louis Bourcier, Richard Hartmann, Albert Kahn, Jean-Marie Lehn, Francis Schlatter, Morgan Schneiderlin, Bireli Lagrene, Nicolas Ferry, Wynkyn de Worde, Johann Burchard, Paul Rohmer, Charly Grosskost, Francois Joseph Westermann, Gustave Brion, Zadoc Kahn, Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim, Marie Jaell, Remy Bricka, Viktor Nessler, Roland Ries, Nadine Auzeil, Oscar Heisserer, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Gustave Bloch, Jean-Noel Huck, Claude Vasconi, Paul Schmitthenner, Leonard Specht, Bruno Steck, Emile Kopp, Jean Wendling, Ernest Schultz, Louis Adam, Bernard Schreiner, Albert Wolff, Andre Burkhard, Johann Hermann, Severine Caneele, Antoine Wenger, Ignace Heinrich, Philippe Grass, Frederic Adam, Eugene Muntz, Adolphe Hastrel de Rivedoux, Francois-Rupert Carabin, Isaie Schwartz. Excerpt: Josel of Rosheim (alternatively: Joselin, Joselmann, Yoselmann, German: , Hebrew: Joseph ben Gershon mi-Rosheim, or Joseph ben Gershon Loanz; c. 1480 - March, 1554) was the great advocate ("shtadlan") of the German and Polish Jews during the reigns of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Charles V. His stature among the Jews, and the protected status he gained for himself and for the Jews within the Holy Roman Empire, rested in part on his skills as an advocate and in part from the Jewish role in financing the expenses of the emperor. Josel of Rosheim remains a major figure of the History of Jews in Alsace. His family probably originated from the French Louhans. One of his ancestors was Jacob ben Jehiel Loans, personal physician to emperor Frederick III, ennobled for his medical achievements, and also Hebrew teacher of the well-known humanist, lawyer and philosopher Johannes Reuchlin. Despite the favor shown to this ancestor, his family history also sho...
