In his novel “A tog in Regensburg”, first published in 1933 by Malino Verlag in New York, the Yiddish-language writer Joseph Opatoshu describes a wedding between a Jewish woman from Regensburg and a Jewish man from Worms in Regensburg. The story is set in 1519, which in real history is the year of the expulsion of the Jews from Regensburg. This is also addressed in the course of the story, but the text begins with Schames Jekil, the synagogue servant, who, full of anticipation for the wedding and in expectation of the guests, tells his son Berl about the wedding plans. In the first few pages, Opatoshu has Jekil look back on his Jewish Regensburg and his seventy years of life in this city. In addition to the residents of the Jewish quarter, he also thinks of its buildings, such as the yeshiva, the talmud school. The section chosen here, pp. 12–15, ends with a description of the synagogue in the midday sun, behind which the spires of St. Emmeram's Church can be seen. As the plot unfolds, the guests from Worms, jugglers, and beggars arrive in the city and the first celebrations begin, with the Yiddish songs of the various groups, including the jugglers and Talmud students, playing a prominent role. The arrival of Jossilman Rosheim, the legal representative of the Jewish communities in the Holy Roman Empire at that time, is accompanied by news of the imminent expulsion of the Jews from Regensburg.

This article refers to the new edition of the first German translation entitled “Ein Tag in Regensburg” [A Day in Regensburg] from 2009, which was published in 2019 by the Regensburg publishing house Friedrich Pustet on the occasion of the opening of the new synagoge in Regensburg.