Sunday, December 12, 2010
Goldfoot South African Reunion in Capetown
2/18/07 Denise Bremridge nee Goldfoot had a family reunion in South Africa and reported information:
Avroham Goldfoot somewhere in Lithuania between JANOVA and VILKIYA on the River Nieman in the region of KOVNO. VILNA is further from this area but also on the same River.
Abraham married Anna and had 6 children; one being Zalman b: 1848 who had the twin girls and 3 others. My grandfather HYMAN was a brother to ZALMAN. Her grandfather moved to ELIZABETGRAD in the Ukraine where he met and married her grandmother BLUME. Her (our) GOLDFOOT/GOLDFUS/GOLDFUSS family must have lived in German territory before moving to Lithuania and Elizabetgrad and finally into the WEST. We need to keep in touch with jewishgen.org. Supposedly Goldfoot is related to Gaon of Vilna of Lithuania, see below,
name is:Elijah ben SolomonElijah ben Solomon, 1720–97, Jewish scholar, called the Gaon of Vilna, b. Lithuania. A leading Jewish scholar of his time, he opposed the spread of Hasidism in Lithuania and Poland because he feared that the creation of these new groups would weaken the Jewish community. His many influential works include commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, the Mishna and Talmud, Midrash, and the kabbalah. He upheld the primacy of Torah study and the halakah, which he held as being of supreme importance for Jewish life.
The following is about Stanley Goldfoot who connects with us in about the 15th century.One such hero in our generation is Stanley Goldfoot. During his lifetime, >Stanley witnessed the rise of tyrants such as Hitler and Ahmadinijad, who are bent on destroying the Jewish people.
http://www.ourjerusalem.com/opinion/story/a-jewish-hero-in-our-time.html
Avroham Goldfoot somewhere in Lithuania between JANOVA and VILKIYA on the River Nieman in the region of KOVNO. VILNA is further from this area but also on the same River.
Abraham married Anna and had 6 children; one being Zalman b: 1848 who had the twin girls and 3 others. My grandfather HYMAN was a brother to ZALMAN. Her grandfather moved to ELIZABETGRAD in the Ukraine where he met and married her grandmother BLUME. Her (our) GOLDFOOT/GOLDFUS/GOLDFUSS family must have lived in German territory before moving to Lithuania and Elizabetgrad and finally into the WEST. We need to keep in touch with jewishgen.org. Supposedly Goldfoot is related to Gaon of Vilna of Lithuania, see below,
name is:Elijah ben SolomonElijah ben Solomon, 1720–97, Jewish scholar, called the Gaon of Vilna, b. Lithuania. A leading Jewish scholar of his time, he opposed the spread of Hasidism in Lithuania and Poland because he feared that the creation of these new groups would weaken the Jewish community. His many influential works include commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, the Mishna and Talmud, Midrash, and the kabbalah. He upheld the primacy of Torah study and the halakah, which he held as being of supreme importance for Jewish life.
The following is about Stanley Goldfoot who connects with us in about the 15th century.One such hero in our generation is Stanley Goldfoot. During his lifetime, >Stanley witnessed the rise of tyrants such as Hitler and Ahmadinijad, who are bent on destroying the Jewish people.
http://www.ourjerusalem.com/opinion/story/a-jewish-hero-in-our-time.html
- Sidney L. Markowitz, in What You Should Know About Jewish Religion, History, Ethics and Culture (New York, NY: Citadel Press, 1955). HERE IS THE RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF GOLD FOOT!"ZOLOTAYA NOGA". from Denise Goldfoot Bremridge.
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