Baruch Rabinowitz lived in Bad Kissingen for only a short time. He was born in Jerusalem on April 11, 1898 as the son of Shmaryahu Schmerl Rabinowitz and his wife Pessel, née Zweber. His parents had been born in Jerusalem, which belonged to the Ottoman Empire in those days, and lived in a European-dominated neighbourhood there. The family belonged to the “Alte Jischuw”, the about 20 000 early, pre-Zionist settlers in Palestine. Most of them were Orthodox Jews who lived in the towns of Safed, Tiberias, Hebron and Jerusalem. Baruch’s father, whose ancestors had come from Lithuania, was a wine merchant and his mother was an offspring of a family of Hungarian scholars.

About the turn of the century, the Rabinowitz family left Palestine and moved to Frankfort/ Main because the Schmerl father couldn’t endure the climate. In Frankfort, Baruch’s father ran an import business for kosher “Palestine wines” and “fine old Cognacs” (brandies).

Baruch attended the secondary school of the Jewish religious community in Frankfurt and then the Jewish teachers' seminar in Cologne, where he successfully passed his religious teacher's examination in March 1915. He taught in Cologne until November 1915 and then worked as a religion teacher at the Jewish elementary school in Frankfurt. His superiors attested to his ‘zeal, loyalty to duty and good teaching success’ (certificate from Dr Emanuel Carlebach, head of the seminary in Cologne, 5 November 1915).

A short time later, he applied for the position of religious education teacher in Bad Kissingen. The position was vacant during the war years, as the long-serving cantor and religion teacher Ludwig Steinberger had been called up for military service. It was very difficult for the local religious community to find a replacement during this time. However, the community's efforts were successful in the last year of the war.The Lower Franconian government authorized Baruch Rabinowitz "as an exception... to give religious instruction at the Israelite religious school in Bad Kissingen for the duration of the Israelite religious teacher Ludwig Steinberger's call-up to military service. There is no memory of him being used as a cantor, schochet  and prayer leader’.

Baruch Rabinowitz moved to Bad Kissingen in February 1918 and lived here, with brief interruptions, at Maxstraße 10 until the beginning of 1919, at the same address as his younger brother Josef, who briefly taught the Kissingen Realschule for a short time in 1918. In the Bad Kissingen registration files, Baruch’s occupation is listed as ‘teacher’. His work in Bad Kissingen was to remain a brief intermezzo. Ludwig Steinberger was discharged from the army at the end of the war and was able to resume his duties. In November 1918, Baruch Rabinowitz received his resignation from the board of the Jewish Community Samuel Hofmann, which took effect on 31 December 1918.

Baruch Rabinowitz must have emigrated to Palestine a few years later. He worked as a teacher in Tel Aviv and married Nechama Rachel Werner, who lived there, in Jerusalem in January 1926. She died in July 2000, but nothing is known about Baruch Rabinowitz's fate.

Nothing is known about Baruch Rabinowitz’ further life so far.