Marx Tuchmann is awakened from his reveries by loud music. The rabbi's speech is concluded and highly‐placed persons are blessed:

The King, the good father of our state, Maximilian Joseph and his wife;

Our gracious crown prince, Ludwig Carl August;

Our dearly beloved and venerated County Judge and his worthy family;

Our decent and refined Chief of the Tax Office and his high‐minded family;

All high government functionaries, ecclesiastical and temporal;

The good inhabitants of Uehlfeld; and

The Jewish inhabitants.

The address is ended and a German song is intoned in which many Christians join.

The consecration comes to an end for today and though it is almost night most participants are reluctant to leave.

All Jewish houses are illuminated.

The following morning there is music again. Prayers are said in the synagogue and the rabbi makes one more speech showing the necessity of two kinds of divine services — the real and the unreal. School children sing still another song and the holy scrolls are carried again around the altar seven times. The service does not end till late in the afternoon.

Now the poor of all faiths are being taken cane of. So many poor Jews appear that they refute the belief that Jews have all the money. Rabbi Rosenfeld believes that the reason for the error is that money is more visible with Jews, as it comes in and goes out every day, which is not the case with landowners, craftsmen and some journalists.

Thus the celebration comes to an end.

The synagogue burned to the ground during a conflagration in 1888. Another synagogue was erected on the same site. The second building was put to the torch by the local Nazi leader in 1938; for this crime he was sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1951.

Also in 1938, the Jews of Markt Uehlfeld were ordered to leave within 2 days and to sell their property in 10 days.

Rabbi Rosenfeld became the District Rabbi of Bamberg, Bavaria. He was a leader in the fight for equality which was not won till 1872. Equal rights were lost in 1933, only 61 years later, and reinstated in 1945 after World War II.

The descendants of Marx Tuchmann found refuge in many parts of the world. Once again they demonstrated the traditional courage and faith and rebuilt what was so cruelly taken from them.

There are no Jews left in Uehlfeld today.

The weary ones, the sad, the suffering
All found their comfort in the holy place,
And the children's gladness and mens' gratitude
Took voice and mingled in the chant of praise.

The funeral and the marriage, now alas!
We know not which is sadder to recall.
For youth and happiness have followed aged
And green grass lieth gently over all.

Natheless the sacred shrine is holy yet,
With its lone floors where reverent feet once trod.
Take off your shoes as by the burning bush,
Before the mystery of death and God.

—Emma Lazarus