Shtadlan

The shtadlan was in the 16th to 18th centuries, the advocate of a Jewish community in the non-Jewish world outside.

Tasks

This prestigious position in the community in addition to the required language proficiency and Rechtskundigkeit assertiveness and negotiation skills. Although the shtadlan could ask for fees, but he could not make it conditional on its activities. The shtadlan considered as forerunner of the later church functionary ( Parnas ).

Known incumbent

• Josel of Rosheim, advocate of the Jews in the Holy Roman Empire, refuted in 1530 at the Diet of Augsburg Anthony wraparound and its anti-Jewish theories in a public disputation.
• Benedict Goldschmidt
• Ber of Bolechow
• Lemle Moses Reinganum
• Ansel Hertz
• Abraham Uhlfelder