Massacre of יהודים YEHUDIM during the Rintfleisch persecutions.

The complete surviving applicable register is presented from Siegmund Salfeld’s 1898 edition of the Nürnberger Memorbuch. Each עברית IVRIT passage is followed by a TJD English translation checked against the facsimile and Salfeld’s German rendering. This is a normalized reading transcription: printed wrapping, pointing and note numbers are omitted; abbreviation punctuation is normalized. Names, order, unnamed relatives and textual gaps are retained. Brackets in the original reproduce editorial restorations; English explanatory brackets are TJD’s. Medieval vernacular names sometimes admit more than one reading. R. preserves an honorific without assuming rabbinic ordination; Mistress renders the respectful title for women.

ᴏʀɪɢɪɴᴀʟ:

הרוגי מיקטמולא ט״ו באב נח לפרט:

הזקן ר׳ יעקב בר שלמה וזוגתו מרת רחל ובנו שלמה הנער ובתו הנערה וחתנו ר׳ שלמה [וזוגתו] מרת חנה בת ר׳ יעקב וג׳ בניו וחתנו ר׳ יוסף בר יעקב וזוגתו מרת יוטא וב׳ בניו. מרת פורא האלמנה ובנה ר׳ אברהם בר יוסף וזוגתו וג׳ בניו. וכסנדרייא בת ר׳ יוסף ושתי בנותיה. מרת גוטלין ובתולה אחת. ר׳ משה בר שמואל וזוגתו מרת גולדינא ובנו יהודה. ר׳ יצחק בר משה הכהן וזוגתו מרת פורא ובנה משה. מרת צרויה בת ר׳ מרדכי. הנער ליברמן בר משה ואחותו הבתולה:³

ᴛʀᴀɴꜱʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:

Those killed at Möckmühl, 15 Av, [50]58 in the abbreviated reckoning:

The elder R. Jacob son of Solomon, his wife Mistress Rachel, his son Solomon, the boy, and his young daughter; his son-in-law R. Solomon, [his wife] Mistress Hannah, daughter of R. Jacob, and his three children; and his son-in-law R. Joseph son of Jacob, his wife Mistress Jutta and his two children. Mistress Pora the widow and her son R. Abraham son of Joseph, his wife and his three children. Xandria, daughter of R. Joseph, and her two daughters. Mistress Gutlin and an unmarried young woman. R. Moses son of Samuel, his wife Mistress Goldina and his son Judah. R. Isaac son of Moses the priest, his wife Mistress Pora and her son Moses. Mistress Zeruiah, daughter of R. Mordecai. The boy Liberman son of Moses and his unmarried sister.⁴

The extended family is the organizing unit of the record, while some people are remembered independently. Mistress Gutlin and an unmarried young woman does not explicitly make the second woman Gutlin’s daughter; the translation preserves that boundary. The state archive locates this 1298 persecution at Möckmühl on the Jagst.⁵

Salfeld finds the same date and the opening household in a second memorial book:

ᴏʀɪɢɪɴᴀʟ:

Das Memorbuch von Sontheim hat das gleiche Datum und folgende Namen: R. Jakob, Sohn R. Salomos, seine Frau Rahel, sein Sohn, der Knabe Salomo, seine junge Tochter, sein Schwiegersohn R. Salomo, dessen Frau Hanna, Tochter des R. Jakob und seine drei Kinder.⁶

ᴛʀᴀɴꜱʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:

The memorial book of Sontheim has the same date and the following names: R. Jacob son of Solomon, his wife Rachel, his son Solomon, the boy, his young daughter, his son-in-law R. Solomon, his wife Hannah, daughter of R. Jacob, and his three children.⁷

This comparison supports Salfeld’s supplied his wife before Hannah in the Nuremberg text. The brackets remain visible because the words are an editorial restoration, not an unbroken reading of that witness. Sontheim’s shorter entry does not contain all the later households reproduced here.

The register explicitly supplies ט״ו באב ה׳נ״ח 15th 𝑜𝑓 Av, AM 5058. Salfeld prints 25 July 1298. A fixed-calendar calculation matches that civil date when read as Julian; the calculation tests the pairing rather than supplying independent historical testimony. The article’s placement rests on the dated memorial heading. Salfeld reports that Sontheim preserves the same date.⁸

• How does the shorter Sontheim witness help explain Hannah’s relationship without replacing the fuller register?
• Why does the distinction between a young woman and her daughter matter in translating this memorial?