Broadside seeking the arrest of the Jewish student Michael Ebstein of Bruchsal, "wanted for espionage in the last war" (i.e. the Napoleonic War)

(GERMANY)

8th August, 1810

Single-sided broadside, German text

Michael Ebstein is described here as a 23/24 years old German and Yiddish speaking Jewish student, the son of the Rabbi of Bruchsal and was last seen in the town of Trebitsch (Moravia) during "Lauberhutten" ( Sukoth). "In the last war Ebstein acted as a spy and enemy agent, should he ever return to these domains he must be apprehended and handed over to the authorities." The alleged spy's father, Pelta Ebstein ( 1745-1821), or as he was known until the year 1809, "Moses Liebold," studied in Frankfurt, Fuerth and Prague. He served as a teacher of Talmud and Unterrabbiner in Karlsruhe, and later as Landesrabbiner in Bruchsal, a town under the rule of the Prince-Bishops of Speyer