Saturday, August 15, 2015
HISTORIC NOVEL: About Today's Syrian Civil War and a Syrian Jew
Messages From A Syrian Jew Trapped In Egypt
The Life of Vick who wishes to live as a Jew in Israel
A remarkable story based on the life of my friend, Jack, Syrian Muslim, who learns his birth mother was Jewish
who escaped from the Syrian Civil War in 2012 to Egypt and tries to survive while confronted by anti-Semites and women and his attempts to get to Israel
as written by his facebook-Skype friend
Nadene Goldfoot
Jack Huffman, Storyteller
a portrait of a tall, dark and handsome genius set in a modern Arabian Nights tale complete with a genie: a refugee and immigrant facing immigration problems and beautiful women
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Labels: Damascus Affair, Egypt, Jews, Muslims, Novel, refugees, Syrian Civil War setting
Saturday, August 01, 2015
Unusual Connecting to Wertheimer Family of Rabbi Samson or Moshe
Nadene Goldfoot
Connecting to Rabbi Wertheimer was found through triangulation on the part of the leaders of Halpern and Branches on Family Tree DNA.
What was found that surprised all was that we had no matches from the Zevulun Eliezer Heilprin line which others seemed to have. This Heilprin was born in 1510 and was the son of a Hilborn.
2 This is the oldest branch and dates back to Zebulon Heilprin-16th century, whose son, Moses of Brest-Litovsk was the father-in-law of Samuel Edels. It seems that Zevulun Eliezer Heilprin's genealogy comes to us in Hebrew from Meir Wunder's Elef Margaliot, - He traces his ancestry back to Yitzchak of Dampierre AKA the R"I (ca. 1120 - 1200).
This is the Yitzchak, "Isaac ben Samuel the Elder (c. 1115 – c. 1184), who was also known as the Ri ha-Zaken, and was a French tosafist and Biblical commentator. He flourished at Ramerupt and Dampierre, France in the twelfth century. He's in my encyclopedia! He was also called Isaac ha-Zaken which means the Senior. Isaac succeeded his uncle Rabbenu Tam as head of the Ramerupt yeshivah and later settled in Dampierre. His pupils quoted his tosaphot and his responsa were scattered through many contemporary works. He wrote a commentary on the Pentateuch but it did not survive. He was interested in mysticism and was in touch with the kabbalists of southern France. His scholarly son, Elhanan, was martyred in his lifetime. (Rabbi Elhanan was married to Unknown whose father was Rabbi Yitzhak Hazaken Hehasid Kalonymus. Elhanan died in the 1st Crusades of 1096l. His wife's mother was a descendant of Rabbi Meshullelm Hadgadol Kalonymus of Lucca, Italy and lived from 900 to 976.
This meant that our Halperns come from a different line. All the 11 or so Halperns on our list come from the non-Zevulun Eliezer Heilprin lines and this was an important find. "Halpern is one of the most widespread Jewish names. It is derived from the city of Heilbronn in Wurttemburg, Germany, where it was first assumed about four hundred years ago. There are many variations and some are: Heilpern, Halper, Helpern, Heilbrun, Heilbronner, Heilprun, Alpron, Alpern, Galpern and Halprin.
4 A Heilprin branch is also related to the BAAL SHEM TOV AKA Israel Ben Eliezer (1700-1760) born in Podolia (between Ukraine and Moldova) . , founder of Hasidism. Many biographies are in Jewish Encyclopedia, most from Poland, Russia and Germany. An article in EJ on Abraham ben Hayyim of Lublin, Poland who died in 1762, a grandson of ISSER, whose son married FORTIS is suggested. CAJ has a Heilprin family tree. LBI has a Heilbrunn family tree beginning in 1683. LBIS has notes of a Heilbron family from Posen. CAJ has Halpern family records. Relationships to other prominent rabbinical families can be traced. Relatives include Katzenellenbogen, Hurwitz, Horovitz, Jaffe, Wahl, Hennigson, Ornstein, Kaminski, Epstein and Raphael. JE article on Pinsk, Russia is where Samuel Halpern was a rabbi.
On our list of matches, however, almost all the Alperoviches who do connect to the Zevulun Eliezer line. This means that someone from our Halpern family married into the Alperovich family founder since 9 Alperoviches are on our list. It's another piece of important information.
The earliest I've seen is an Abram Alperovich b: 1660, place unknown.
In researching, I found a Rose Luria Halprin (1895-1978) US Zionist who was national president of Hadassah from 1932 to 1934 and then again from 1947 to 1952. From 1946 to 1968 she belonged as an executive of the Jewish Agency. In 1969 she was appointed to head the American Division of the World Jewish Congress. Besides that, she was a very pretty lady.
There were several Heilprins in my encyclopedia.
1. Angelo (1853-1907 US geologist, paleontologist and explorer, son of Michael Heilprin.
2. Michael (1823-1888) was an author and journalist of Polish birth, he went to Hungary in 1842 and was appointed secretary of the Ministry of the Interior's press office in the 1848 rebellion. He then escaped abroad and in 1856 settled in the USA and taught in Jewish schools in Philadelphia and was an activist in the anti-slavery movement.
3. Louis (1851-1912) was editor and son of Michael. He was also a writer.
JE: Jewish Encyclopedias
EJ Encyclopedia Judaica
LBI Leo Beck Institute
UJE Universal Jewish Encyclopedia
Resource:http://www.geni.com/projects/Alperovich-Heilbrun-Heilprin-Family/1540 working on the Alperovich/Heilbrunn/Heilbrun/Heilbronner/HeilprinFamily History
http://goldfoot_genealogy.blogspot.com/2014/10/goldfoot-genealogy-from-rabbis-of-worms.html
http://www.geni.com/people/Zevulun-Eliezer-Heilprin-Hillman/6000000008368206939
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7896552#editor/target=post;postID=6806184449982076448
http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/ALPEROVICH
Finding Our Fathers by Dan Rottenberg
http://www.lbi.org/research/family-research/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehiel_ben_Solomon_Heilprin
Halpern & Branches Group on FTDNA
Books: TRACE YOUR ROOTS WITH DNA by Megan Smolenyak and Ann Turner...Has information from another 3rd cousin Louis Loccisano in it.
Connecting to Rabbi Wertheimer was found through triangulation on the part of the leaders of Halpern and Branches on Family Tree DNA.
2 This is the oldest branch and dates back to Zebulon Heilprin-16th century, whose son, Moses of Brest-Litovsk was the father-in-law of Samuel Edels. It seems that Zevulun Eliezer Heilprin's genealogy comes to us in Hebrew from Meir Wunder's Elef Margaliot, - He traces his ancestry back to Yitzchak of Dampierre AKA the R"I (ca. 1120 - 1200).
This is the Yitzchak, "Isaac ben Samuel the Elder (c. 1115 – c. 1184), who was also known as the Ri ha-Zaken, and was a French tosafist and Biblical commentator. He flourished at Ramerupt and Dampierre, France in the twelfth century. He's in my encyclopedia! He was also called Isaac ha-Zaken which means the Senior. Isaac succeeded his uncle Rabbenu Tam as head of the Ramerupt yeshivah and later settled in Dampierre. His pupils quoted his tosaphot and his responsa were scattered through many contemporary works. He wrote a commentary on the Pentateuch but it did not survive. He was interested in mysticism and was in touch with the kabbalists of southern France. His scholarly son, Elhanan, was martyred in his lifetime. (Rabbi Elhanan was married to Unknown whose father was Rabbi Yitzhak Hazaken Hehasid Kalonymus. Elhanan died in the 1st Crusades of 1096l. His wife's mother was a descendant of Rabbi Meshullelm Hadgadol Kalonymus of Lucca, Italy and lived from 900 to 976.
On his father's side, Isaac was a grandson of R. Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry, author of the Maḥzor Vitry; on his mother's side he was a nephew of Rabbeinu Tam, of Rashbam, and of Isaac ben Meir (RiBaM), a great-grandson of Rashi, and a relative of R. Eleazar of Worms. He is often quoted as R. Isaac of Dampierre but it seems that he lived first at Ramerupt, where his maternal grandfather resided. It was also at Ramerupt that he studied under his uncle R. Tam after the latter had gone to Troyes. Isaac ben Samuel directed his school.
Isaac settled at Dampierre later, and founded there a flourishing and well-attended school (Or Zarua, i. 126). It is said that he had sixty pupils, each of whom, besides being generally well grounded in Talmud, knew an entire treatise by heart, so that the whole Talmud was stored in the memories of his pupils As he lived under Philip Augustus, at whose hands the Jews suffered much, Isaac prohibited the buying of confiscated Jewish property, and ordered that any so bought be restored to its original owner. A particular interest attaches to one of his responsa, in which he relies on the oral testimony of his aunt, the wife of R. Isaac b. Meïr, and on that of the wife of R. Eleazar of Worms, a great-granddaughter of Rashi
He died, according to Heinrich Graetz , about 1200; but according to Henri Gross between 1185 and 1195; and as he is known to have reached an advanced age, Gross supposes that he was not born later than 1115. On the other hand, Michael (Or ha-Ḥayyim says that as Isaac ben Samuel was spoken of as "the sainted master" a term generally given to martyrs, he may have been killed at the same time as his son Elhanan (1184).
From Geni: another way of putting it:
HaRav Yitzhak Ben Shmuel Hazaken of Dampierre de Vitry, [baal HATOSAFOT] MP
| Birth: | 1120 Ramerupt, Champagne-Ardenne, France |
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| Death: | 1189 (69) Dampierre, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France |
| Immediate Family: |
Son of Shmuel ben Simha of Vitry and Chana de Vitry, Rashi Gd.dau. ("Hanale Lady of Vives")
Husband of Wife R"I Hazaken and Elvina wife Shmuel bar Natrony Father of Comitessa de Vitry; Shmuel de Dampierre and Elhanan ben Yitzhak HaKadosh Brother of Rachel Troyes Half brother of Meshullam Kalonymos and we connect to this Kalonymos family somehow. |
This meant that our Halperns come from a different line. All the 11 or so Halperns on our list come from the non-Zevulun Eliezer Heilprin lines and this was an important find. "Halpern is one of the most widespread Jewish names. It is derived from the city of Heilbronn in Wurttemburg, Germany, where it was first assumed about four hundred years ago. There are many variations and some are: Heilpern, Halper, Helpern, Heilbrun, Heilbronner, Heilprun, Alpron, Alpern, Galpern and Halprin.
Source: Kaganoff, B. C. (1977). A dictionary of Jewish names and their history. New York: Schocken Books.
In the book, FINDING OUR FATHERS BY DAN ROTTENBERG, he lists:
1.Halper--See Heilprin
2. Halperin--See Heilprin
3. Halpern---See Heilprin
4. Heilprin (also Halpern, Heilbronn, Heilbrunn, Heilperin, Heilbron, Heilbroner, Heilperin, Heilpern, Heilborn, Halperin, Hellpern, Alpron, Galpern, Heilprun, Galperin, Halper, Helpern.
It's a German name derived from the town of Heilbronn in Wurttemberg. All Jews with variation of this name are not necessarily related; many Jews of Austria, Germany and Russia indiscriminately assumed these names when ordered to take family names in about 1800. There are 4 branches of the Heilprin name: Jewish Encyclopedia has charts for 3 branches.
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| Heilprin Tree The genealogy of a third branch is that made by Belinson of the family of Jehiel Hirsch Heilprin, who went from Brody in 1821 to Odessa, where he was dayyan ... |
3. Another branch comes from the Lithuanian Rabbi Jehiel Heilprin (1660-1746), a descendant of Solomon Luria, who traced his genealogy back through Rashi (1040-1105). Jehiel Ben Solomon Heilprin was born about 1660 in Russia. He was a scholar. He was rabbi at Glusk in White Russia (Belarus) and from 1711 in Minsk (Belarus). His best-known work was Seder ha-Dorot comprising a chronology down to 1696, an alphabetical list of tannaim and amoraim, and a catalog of post-talmudic Hebrew authors and books. He had rabbinical knowledge and also a wide secular education and was a student of Kabbalah. He traced his genealogy back through Rashi to the tanna Johanan Ha Sandlar, the shoemaker was born in Alexandria in the 2nd century.
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| Rabbi Akiva |
He was a Palestinian tanna and a pupil of Rabbi Akiva. He survived the Hadrianic persecutions and was a teacher of the Torah. Ben Joseph Akiva c: 50-135 was a tanna. He was of humble origin and remained undeducated until age 40. He was later regarded as the greatest scholar of his time.
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| Baal Shem Tov |
. Many Heilprins in Russia claimed in 1900 descent from the 4th branch.
On our list of matches, however, almost all the Alperoviches who do connect to the Zevulun Eliezer line. This means that someone from our Halpern family married into the Alperovich family founder since 9 Alperoviches are on our list. It's another piece of important information.
The earliest I've seen is an Abram Alperovich b: 1660, place unknown.
In researching, I found a Rose Luria Halprin (1895-1978) US Zionist who was national president of Hadassah from 1932 to 1934 and then again from 1947 to 1952. From 1946 to 1968 she belonged as an executive of the Jewish Agency. In 1969 she was appointed to head the American Division of the World Jewish Congress. Besides that, she was a very pretty lady.
There were several Heilprins in my encyclopedia.
1. Angelo (1853-1907 US geologist, paleontologist and explorer, son of Michael Heilprin.
2. Michael (1823-1888) was an author and journalist of Polish birth, he went to Hungary in 1842 and was appointed secretary of the Ministry of the Interior's press office in the 1848 rebellion. He then escaped abroad and in 1856 settled in the USA and taught in Jewish schools in Philadelphia and was an activist in the anti-slavery movement.
3. Louis (1851-1912) was editor and son of Michael. He was also a writer.
JE: Jewish Encyclopedias
EJ Encyclopedia Judaica
LBI Leo Beck Institute
UJE Universal Jewish Encyclopedia
Resource:http://www.geni.com/projects/Alperovich-Heilbrun-Heilprin-Family/1540 working on the Alperovich/Heilbrunn/Heilbrun/Heilbronner/HeilprinFamily History
http://goldfoot_genealogy.blogspot.com/2014/10/goldfoot-genealogy-from-rabbis-of-worms.html
http://www.geni.com/people/Zevulun-Eliezer-Heilprin-Hillman/6000000008368206939
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7896552#editor/target=post;postID=6806184449982076448
http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/ALPEROVICH
Finding Our Fathers by Dan Rottenberg
http://www.lbi.org/research/family-research/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehiel_ben_Solomon_Heilprin
Halpern & Branches Group on FTDNA
Books: TRACE YOUR ROOTS WITH DNA by Megan Smolenyak and Ann Turner...Has information from another 3rd cousin Louis Loccisano in it.
Labels: Baal Shem Tov, Jehiel Heilprin, Meshullam Kalonymos, Moses Wertheimer, Rabbi Samson Wertheimer, Yitzchak of Dampierre, Zebulun Eliezer Heilprin
