Sunday, October 23, 2016
Genealogy Tree and DNA Connect Hochfeld to Goldfus/Goldfoot
Nadene Goldfoot
H.Hochfeld is the 2nd cousin of my 1st cousin, N. Goldfoot. N.s father, Charles Goldfoot b: 1906, was married Helen Hochfeld b: 1909, who was H,s 1st cousin once removed. That means that Helen's father, William Hochfeld b: February 22, 1882 in Kiev, Ukraine, was H.s 1st cousin.
William Hochfeld's father was Harry Chayim David Hochfeld b: September 16, 1830 in Biala, Tzerkaw, (Zerkow) Poland.
Herb's father was Frank Burrick Hochfeld b: April 6, 1892 in Russia.
Frank's father was Simon "Solomon" Samuel Hochfeld b: July 1855 in Lutsk, Ukraine, formerly part of Poland. .
Simon's father was Harry Chayim David Hochfeld b: 1830 as stated above.
Harry was the father of 7 boys and 3 girls of which his 1st son was Simon b; 1855 and his 10th was William b: 1882.
Now I find many of our family are related to H.Hochfeld by DNA, so we have a connection to his family much farther back, which is quite common with Ashkenazi Jews.
My brother and I are H's. 4th cousins, decided by DNA matches. We are the children of Charles Goldfoot's brother, Maurice Goldfoot. Therefore, Helen Hochfeld and Charles Goldfoot were sharing DNA matches as well, making them at least 3rd cousins unknowingly.
Charles and Maurice's sister, Anne's daughter, another of our 1st cousins, is also a 4th cousin to H. by DNA.
My daughter-in-law is found to be H.'s 5th cousin, but not her brother. Siblings don't always match the same people.
My good friend, born in England but now living in my area, is also H. Hochfeld's 5th to remote cousin.
One of the heads of Halpern & Branches Group on FTDNA matches H Hochfled as a 4th cousin, opening the possibilities of also becoming a member of this group since we also belong.
What I find interesting is that H Hochfeld is the oldest of us all at 92, and bears the highest Near East genes of us all who match him with DNA. Many Jews had to flee from Jerusalem when it fell to the Romans in 70 CE and Jews who became Ashkenazi Jews have found refuge of sorts in Europe while our siblings stayed in the Middle East and Spain and became the Sephardim Jews. Ashkenazis with H Hochfeld as an example of his age bear the proof of still carrying over 13% of specific genes found in the Near East. That's what I have found from my sampling of Ashkenazis connected to us with both parents that were Jewish; from over 10% to over 13% of genes from the Near East on an Admixture heritage MDLP Project results.
That's very good, considering that only 10 generations ago, we each have 1,024 ancestors; 512 male and 512 female and inherit only 0.09765625% of our DNA per gggggggggrandparent which was only 250 years ago. How many generations ago was the year 70 with 25 years fixed as a generation? About 77 generations ago. To show this much DNA from the Near East, as the testing called it instead of the Middle East, I think is quite an accomplishment for us-and I returned to Israel, making aliyah in 1980.
He's also a Cohen; both in the synagogue and as shown by his DNA Y haplotype-that of J-M267. There are others in the group who are also Cohens such as J-M172. Another match to us and to H Hochfeld is another Cohen- J-P58. It's splendid to know that this history was handed down probably through oral means and perhaps through writings, of being a Cohen as this was a very responsible position to bear.
Another fact found about H. Hochefeld is that his family has found that he has connection to a very famous rabbi born in 1525 who died in 1609, Rabbi Judah Low ben Bezalel (Der Hohe Rabbi Low) of Prague, known as the Maharel of Prague. He was the head rabbi in Moravia, which is now part of the Czech Republic. Moravia was the former province of Bohemia, later Austria and now Czechoslovakia. Jews had lived there from the early Middle Ages and then suffered in massacres in 1337, and again during the Black Death in 1349-being blamed for causing it. Jews were then expelled in 1421. Polish persecution happened from 1648 onward. From the 17th century, there had existed a General Council of Moravian Jewry. The city of Brno or Brunn was an important center of rabbinic learning. 45,000 Jews living there in 1938 died from the Nazis. Few returned after WWII.
"Connecting to the family of the Vilna Gaon of Lithuania was :Rabbi Moshe Rivkas who came to Vilna from Prague in the early 17th century. During the Cossack massacres in 1655, Rivkas fled to Amsterdam, where he completed his commentary on the Shulkhan Arukh called Be-er Hagolah.
The rabbi the Halpern Group found through DNA testing that many of us connect to Rabbi Samson Wertheimer or his brother, Moshe. The article about him is below.
Resource:
Family Tree DNA
GedMatch.com
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
http://goldfoot_genealogy.blogspot.com/2015/07/were-from-court-jews-of-vienna.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kiev
Book: Eliyahu's Branches-descendant of the Vilna Gaon and his family by Chaim Freedman 1997
H.Hochfeld is the 2nd cousin of my 1st cousin, N. Goldfoot. N.s father, Charles Goldfoot b: 1906, was married Helen Hochfeld b: 1909, who was H,s 1st cousin once removed. That means that Helen's father, William Hochfeld b: February 22, 1882 in Kiev, Ukraine, was H.s 1st cousin.
William Hochfeld's father was Harry Chayim David Hochfeld b: September 16, 1830 in Biala, Tzerkaw, (Zerkow) Poland.
Herb's father was Frank Burrick Hochfeld b: April 6, 1892 in Russia.
Frank's father was Simon "Solomon" Samuel Hochfeld b: July 1855 in Lutsk, Ukraine, formerly part of Poland. .
Simon's father was Harry Chayim David Hochfeld b: 1830 as stated above.
Harry was the father of 7 boys and 3 girls of which his 1st son was Simon b; 1855 and his 10th was William b: 1882.
Now I find many of our family are related to H.Hochfeld by DNA, so we have a connection to his family much farther back, which is quite common with Ashkenazi Jews.
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| Diagram of 4th cousin connection We have to go WAY back to find 4th and 5th cousins to gggrandparents of 5 generations ago with 32 ancestors; 16 females and 16 males, inheriting 3.125% of our genes from each; back to about 1891. . |
Charles and Maurice's sister, Anne's daughter, another of our 1st cousins, is also a 4th cousin to H. by DNA.
My daughter-in-law is found to be H.'s 5th cousin, but not her brother. Siblings don't always match the same people.
My good friend, born in England but now living in my area, is also H. Hochfeld's 5th to remote cousin.
One of the heads of Halpern & Branches Group on FTDNA matches H Hochfled as a 4th cousin, opening the possibilities of also becoming a member of this group since we also belong.
What I find interesting is that H Hochfeld is the oldest of us all at 92, and bears the highest Near East genes of us all who match him with DNA. Many Jews had to flee from Jerusalem when it fell to the Romans in 70 CE and Jews who became Ashkenazi Jews have found refuge of sorts in Europe while our siblings stayed in the Middle East and Spain and became the Sephardim Jews. Ashkenazis with H Hochfeld as an example of his age bear the proof of still carrying over 13% of specific genes found in the Near East. That's what I have found from my sampling of Ashkenazis connected to us with both parents that were Jewish; from over 10% to over 13% of genes from the Near East on an Admixture heritage MDLP Project results.
That's very good, considering that only 10 generations ago, we each have 1,024 ancestors; 512 male and 512 female and inherit only 0.09765625% of our DNA per gggggggggrandparent which was only 250 years ago. How many generations ago was the year 70 with 25 years fixed as a generation? About 77 generations ago. To show this much DNA from the Near East, as the testing called it instead of the Middle East, I think is quite an accomplishment for us-and I returned to Israel, making aliyah in 1980.
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| Cohens at the Temple; first to read from Torah, descended from Aaron, chosen by Moses as high priest to carry out duties, now serving in synagogues. Cohens today are descended from these priestly families, from the Tribe of Levi. The family of Aaron was the actual priest responsible for supervision of hygienic purity, sacrifices which we don't have today, and instructing people in the Mosaic Law. |
"Connecting to the family of the Vilna Gaon of Lithuania was :Rabbi Moshe Rivkas who came to Vilna from Prague in the early 17th century. During the Cossack massacres in 1655, Rivkas fled to Amsterdam, where he completed his commentary on the Shulkhan Arukh called Be-er Hagolah.
Moshe Rivkas's earliest ancestor was Yosef HaKhaver, one of the members of the Jewish community of Vienna who was exiled to Prague, Czech Republic,the seat of two Holy Roman Emperors and thus also the capital of the Holy Roman Empire in 1559. Yosef's son, Rabbi Petakhiah who died in 1598 was sofer (scribe) of the Prague community, as was his son, Rabbi Naftali Tsvi Hersh. Naftali Tsvi Hersh Sofer was the father of Rabbi Moshe Rivkas.
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| Vilna Gaon 1720-1797 son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman (1695-1758) and Treina. His mother came from Seltz/Selets near Grodno. His father came a prominent Vilna family. The Gaon's ancestry started with Rabbi David Ashkenazy who died in 1645. He was the Rosh Yeshiva (head of the religious school) in Lemberg, Poland. The Gaon's great-great-grandfather was Eliyahu Khassid who married into another prominent rabbinic family. His wife was a daughter of Rabbi Petakhiah who died in 1672. |
Being that the Goldfoots were from Lithuania, my 3rd cousin Stanley Goldfoot of Jerusalem was told that he was related to the Vilna Gaon somehow. Vilna is a town in Lithuania and a Gaon is a very learned rabbi. This Gaon was Elijah ben Solomon Zalman who was the best scholar to have come from Vilna. Many claim being related to him.
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| Rabbi Samson Wertheimer (1658-1724) born in Worms, Germany, Financier in Vienna, became chief rabbi of Hungary in 1719, nephew of Samuel Oppenheimer. |
Resource:
Family Tree DNA
GedMatch.com
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
http://goldfoot_genealogy.blogspot.com/2015/07/were-from-court-jews-of-vienna.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kiev
Book: Eliyahu's Branches-descendant of the Vilna Gaon and his family by Chaim Freedman 1997
Labels: cohen DNA, dna, family trees, Goldfoot, Goldfus, Hochfeld, Rabbi Low/Loew, Rabbi Wertheimer, Vilna Gaon
