Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen

Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen was born in Frankfurt am Main, where he later served as a religious judge and head of the local yeshiva. His Yosef omets (He Will Be Stronger; see Job 17:9), a book of customs revolving around the annual ritual cycle, emphasizes practices specific to Frankfurt (akin to Yuspa Shamash’s book of customs for Worms). It also includes a detailed account of the expulsion of Jews from Frankfurt in 1614, following the rioting against them during a burgher rebellion called the Fettmilch Uprising, their triumphant return two years later, and the establishment of a local Purim Day, on which the local community commemorated those events.