Monday, March 24, 2014
Goldfus/Goldfoot Originated From Rabbis Samson or Moshe Wertheimer
This is DNA information
from Andi Ziegelman in Israel. Sandy, co-chairman is in the USA.
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Sandy has triangulated you and your brother with the Wertheimers. This means
that you two are Wertheimers. Google the name Samson Wertheimer. I am nearly
sure that you two descend from him or from his brother Moshe. " Andi.
Nadene Goldfoot
Connecting to Rashi, 1040-1105 Troyes, France, studied in Worms
Rabbi Samson Wertheimer (1658-1724) of Worms, Germany and Austria
I found out that Rabbi Samson Wertheimer was born January 17, 1658 and died August 6, 1724 in Vienna at age 66 years 6 months 30 days. He was the chief rabbi of Hungary in 1719, and Moravia, a historical country in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic and one of the historical Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. It was also one of the 17 former crown lands of the Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1867–1918 and one of the five lands of Czechoslovakia in 1918–1928, and Chief rabbi of Eisenstadt, Austria. He was also an Austrian financier, court Jew and Shtadlan to Austrian Emperor Leopold I. When Jews were expelled from Vienna in 1670, many went to Moravia, including Prossnitz "Prostic",in Hebrew which was already a significant Jewish community. Prossnitz was an Austrian manufacturing town, in the province of Moravia. Rabbi Samson and his entourage were exempt from the expulsion, probably for financial reasons.
Rabbi Samson Wertheimer was born in Worms, Germany, the son of Joseph Josel Wertheimer (1626-May 2, 1713) and received his education at the yeshivas of Worms and Frankfurt am main.
He went to Vienna, Austria on December 2, 1684 and connected with Samuel Oppenheimer, the banker and lived with him. He was given a house by Rince Esterhazy in Eisenstadt in 1696. When Oppenheimer wasn't in the city, Wertheimer represented him in transactions with the Austrian government. He soon gained the confidence of Emperor Leopold I, who gave a portrait of himself to Wertheimer and his son Wolf. On December 15, 1701, followed this gift with another of 1,000 ducats for the financier's success in getting for the daughter of the King of Poland a dowry of 1,000,000 florins from her father upon her marriage to Leopold's brother-in-law, Duke Charles Philip.
The Spanish War of Succession: Wertheimer united with Samuel Oppenheimer to procure the money necessary for the equipment of the imperial army and for the supply of provision. Oppenheimer died in 1703 so Wertheimer kept the credit of the state and found new sources of income. He was appointed as court factor on August 29, 1703 and was given 20 years more of privileges of free religious worship, denizenship and immunity from taxation. Joseph I succeeded his father in 1705 and confirmed Wertheimer's title and privileges. He then continued as a financier and creditor of the state.
The Turkish War: Wertheimer made large loans to the government. The Jews of Hungary gave Wertheimer the title of "Landesrabbiner". which was made effective by Charles VI on August 26, 1711. Wertheimer was called the "Juden Kaiser." Ten imperial soldiers stood as sentinels before his house. He had many palaces and gardens in Vienna and many estates and houses in Germany in Frankfurt am Main, Worms, and other cities.
He established schools, and gave large amounts of money in Europe and the Holy Land. Alien Jews were not allowed to stay overnight in Vienna without a written permit from him.
He continued his work as a rabbi.
By the marriages of his children, Wertheimer became connected with the most prominent families of Austria and Germany. His stepson was Isaac Nathan Oppenheimer who married a daughter of the wealthy purveyor Posing. His oldest son, Wolf, married a daughter of Emanuel Oppenheimer.
Wolf was much like his father and was also a court factor but later had great reverses of fortune. He invested a large part of his wealth in loans to the Bavarian government and the repayment was not kept and he was near bankruptcy. For a while he could only pay half of the interest on the 150,000 florins that Samson had donated to charity and that Wolf was trustee. His father had donated 22,000 florins for the German Jews in Palestine and he couldn't pay the interst after 1733. Elector Maximilian liquidated his debts for him.
He asked his children to pay in full his donation of 22,000 florins. In 1759 Wolf had returned to Frankfurt's congregation 10,000 florins which it had contributed to this fund. In 1769 Samson's grandchildren secured the donation of 150,000 florins, and Wolf's heirs added thereto 40,000 florins to compensate for unpaid interest.
Samson's 2nd son, Lob, married a daughter of Issachar ha-Levi Bermann of Halberstadt, a relative of Leffman Behrens, court Jew of Hanover. There 3 geat shetadlanin were closely connected.
Samson's son-in-law were:
1. R. Moses Kann of Frankfurt-on-the-Main
2. Issacbar Berush Eskeles, father of Vienna banker Bernhard Eskeles
3. Joseph Oppenheimer, son of R. David Oppenheimer
4. Seligmann Berend Kohn-called Solomon of Hamburg
His youngest son, Joseph Josel Wertheimer b: 1718 married a daughter of his stepbrother Wolf. Joseph died in Vienna in 1761 where he was reportedly greatly esteemed for his charity and Talmudic learning.
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Joseph Von Wertheimer (1800-1887) born in Worms: was an Austrian educator and author. He studied educational problems and established the first kindergarten in Vienna in 1830. He also founded a society for developing handicrafts among the Jews in 1840, a children's home in 1843 and a society for the care of orphans in 1860. To support the struggle for equal rights, he wrote comprehensive accounts of the Jews in Austria and wrote popular plays as well. Many in our family have become educators, but this is not unusual for Jews to do.
Another interesting person is Max Wertheimer (1880-1943). He was a psychologist and taught in Germany until 1933 and then went to New York where he taught at the New School for Social Research. He was a founder of the Gestalt theory of psychology. My brother, David Goldfoot, is a retired psychologist who practiced in Madison, Wisconsin. Wendy Goldfoot, 1st cousin once removed of David, is a head psychological nurse in a hospital.
"Rabbi Samson lived out his years in Torah study, charity and good deeds, and he accomplished a lot of good both for the Jews and for the country. Before his death he willed a large part of his possessions to charity: this “Wertheimer Fund” existed till the first World War, and gave much help to charitable causes."
"Rabbi Samson lived out his years in Torah study, charity and good deeds, and he accomplished a lot of good both for the Jews and for the country. Before his death he willed a large part of his possessions to charity: this “Wertheimer Fund” existed till the first World War, and gave much help to charitable causes."
As for Samson's brother, Moshe, our father's first name was Moshe. I have not located information about him as yet.
Update: 6/18/15: Wife Of Moshe Kann (born Wertheimer), born Circa 1690
The Jewish edifices in Austria's Eisenstadt:
Update: 6/18/15: Wife Of Moshe Kann (born Wertheimer), born Circa 1690
Wife Of Moshe Kann (born Wertheimer) was born circa 1690, to Shimshon Wertheimerand Wife Of Wolf Wertheimer (born Oppenheimer).
Shimshon was born on January 7 1658, in Worms.
Wife was born circa 1660.
Wife married Moshe Kann.
Moshe was born circa 1690.
Wife passed away.
The Jewish edifices in Austria's Eisenstadt:
- "Jewish quarter (German: Judenviertel) of city central (Oberberg)[3]
- Jewish Community of Eisenstadt (1732–1938, 1945-)
- Jerusalemplatz[4] & gate, Judengasse (Unterberggasse)
- Österreichisches Jüdisches Museum and Samson Wertheimer's house (German: Wertheimer-Haus, the Synagogue of Eisenstadt); there was the chief rabbinate of Hungarian Kingdom: Around Gloriettenallee, Alexander Wolf-Gasse, Meierhofgasse,Museumsgasse, Wertheimergasse, Carl Moreau-Strasse, Alois Tomasini-Gasse, Weingartenstrasse, etc.
- Jewish cemeteries of Eisenstadt"
Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Wertheimer
http://www.jewishgen.org/rabbinic/journal/ashkenazic.htm includes Sephardic rabbis-intermarriage between Ashkenazi and Sephardi; excellenthttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prohel/names/wertheimer/wertheimer.html Family Tree
http://home.comcast.net/~mawerth/ Family Tree/Wertheimer Family Homepage
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112291/jewish/Rabbi-Samsons-Great-Escape.htm Accused of stealing from the king; did not.
http://goldschmidt.tripod.com/werth.htm Wertheimer Tree-no Moshe or Moses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstadt
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, Wertheimer
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12394-prossnitz
http://www.myheritage.com/names/moshe_wertheimer
Labels: Austria, autosomal test, dna, Emperor Leopold I, Germany, Hungary, Oppenheim, Rabbi Samson Wertheimer. Worms, Wertheimers
