Thursday, June 04, 2015
Research Places for Wertheimer and Oppenheim
Nadene Goldfoot
Wertheim/also Wertheimer--Ashkenazi name taken from
the town of Wertheim in Baden.
JE and UJ have biographies from 17th cent. Austria
and 19-cent. Austria, Hungary, England and USA.
LBI has Werheimer family trees beginning 17th
cent., 1721, 1738, and 1770, related to Fraaenkel, and a Wertheimber tree
beginning 1588.
AJA has a Wertheimer tree from Dayton, Ohio, and
Denver, Colo, beginning 1815
PD and CAJ have Wertheimer family
records.
See Wertheimer family history in JFF, Nos 7,8,9 and
10.
Also see Samson Wertheimer, der Oberhoffactor und
Landes-Rabbiner, 1658-1724; Verzeichnis der nachkkommen des Leopold und der
Rosa Wolf, 1800-1866; and
AJF (1912) p. 12.
JE article on "Coat of Arms" has the Wertheimer
family crest.
Related to Samson, Katz, Oppenheim, Oppenheimer,
Kann, Bermann, Behrens, Eskeles, Kohn, Hirsch, Levi, Konigswarter, Lehmann,
Kahn, Brunner, Leides-dorfer, Gomperz, Arnstein, Boas and Wolf.
JE=Jewish Encyclopedia 1901-1906, public
library, also online: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com
UJ=Universal Jewish Encyclopedia 10 volumes
1939-1948, public library
LBI= Archives of the Leo Baeck Institute in
NY
AJA=American Jewish Archives
PD= Paul Diamant collection at the central archives
for the history of the Jewish people in Jerusalem.
CAJ= Material from the genealogy or family file at
the central archives for the history of the Jewish people in
Jerusalem
JFF=hope he meant FFJ=Judische Familien-Forschung.
Googling Wertheimer came up with some famous people:
Wertheimer is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname:
People with this surname include:
- Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, French Jewish billionaire owners of Chanel
- Wertheimer et Frère, partnership of the two brothers
- Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer (1894-1957), Austrian and German diplomat, journalist, jurist and political scientist
- Esther Wertheimer, Polish architect
- François Wertheimer, French singer (article in French Wikipedia)
- Fred Wertheimer, American political activist
- Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-born Israeli biochemist
- Jack Wertheimer, professor of American Jewish history
- Jacques Wertheimer, father of Pierre
- Arjeh Yehuda Wertheimer (1862-1937), known as Constantin Brunner, German-Jewish philosopher
- Linda Wertheimer, American broadcast journalist for National Public Radio
- Max Wertheimer (1880- 1943), Prague-born Gestalt psychologist
- Michael Wertheimer (psychologist) (born 1927), psychologist, son of Max Wertheimer
- Michael Wertheimer, American cryptologic mathematician
- Pierre Wertheimer, co-founder of Chanel
- Rabbi Samson Wertheimer (1658-1724), German-Hungarian and Austrian rabbi, philanthropist
- Rabbi Solomon Aaron Wertheimer
- Stef Wertheimer (born 1926), Israeli industrialist
- Yair Wertheimer, Israeli tennis player
Update 7/21/15 Because Wertheimer is connected to Oppenheim/Oppenheimer, I'll add a little about that surname because it connects strongly to Wertheimer from this same book.
Oppenheim/Oppenheimer is an Ashkenazic surname taken from the German town of Oppenheim on the Rhein-Hessen. Jews first settled there in the 13th Century. JE and UJ have many biographies from Germany, Austria and England, beginning in the 17th century. That could explain why not all Oppenheimers are related by DNA. LBI has Oppenheim family trees beginning in 1556, 1633, 1676 and 1825.
Resource: Finding Our Fathers-a guidebook to Jewish Genealogy by Dan Rottenberg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertheimer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertheimer
Labels: Dan Rottenberg, Finding Our Fathers, Wertheimer
