Libes briv (Love Letter)

Matheus Staedlein was a silversmith active in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1716 and 1735. Only six examples of his work are known, five of them Jewish ceremonial objects.

Born into a poor family, Isaac Wetzlar nevertheless managed to obtain a rabbinic education in Prague. He presented himself as a successful businessman, but it is also clear that he was a learned man. He appears in archival sources associated with the Jewish community of Celle from 1717 until his death. Libes briv (Love Letter) survived in the form of a manuscript. It is written in Yiddish and combines the genre of ethical writings with parts that are more autobiographical by nature. In the book, Wetzlar addresses many of the social and religious problems of his generation.