Goldfoot Genealogy

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                                         

2017 at Don's 80th Birthday 1st cousins Nate Goldfoot and Don Eichman

born: February 25, 1934 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon  died April 26, 2020 in Gresham, Multnomah, Oregon Nate lived for 86 years, 2 months and 1 day.

    
Condolences to Nathan Bernard Goldfoot's family, as he passed away at 6:15 am Monday morning, April 26, 2020, coughed, and died in his wife, Lorraine's arms.  Nate had been on dialysis for many years and decided that enough was enough.  He had had diabetes, type 2.  He could take dialysis no more.  My cousin had been off of it for 2 weeks, after enduring the 3 times a week episodes for 7 years.  Those 2 weeks were very special, painless and meant not being as tired as he had been after these treatments.  He was able to speak with all his relatives at least over the phone, as these are coronavirus stay-home days, when visiting is not something any of us must forget about for the time being. 
                                                                           

1934 and Charlie (Haskel) is carrying Nate outside in Portland

Nate's parents were Charles "Haskel" Goldfoot, son of Nathan Abraham Goldfoot and Helen Hochfeld, daughter of William Hochfeld and Francis Cushner.  William had a department store in Grand Coulee so the couple moved there and remained.  They were the only Jewish family in the town, so  went to Spokane, Washington for the holidays.  

I remember that Nate and family would come visit us while I was a little girl, and Nate was the biggest tease!  I had an electric toy stove, and Nate loved to tease me with it.  I was always afraid he'd break it.  Then he wound up being the only guy in the family that knew how such things worked and became a Mr fixer, mostly with our cars.  Nate got that teasing personality from his dad Charlie, who was also very outgoing and loved to tease.  
                                               

Nate, relaxing at home

Nate's father passed away at age 43 in the middle of December 1949.  and my dad Morrie, Charles's brother, drove up there for the funeral and brought back Nate to live with us.  Nate and I were 6 months apart, Nate being the oldest.  Most all men of that era smoked, and he probably smoked Camels.  He had a terrible smoker's cough.  Charlie's baby sister, Anne, also had the same problem.  Everyone of that era smoked!  

We were both named for our grandfather, Nathan Abraham, though at that time no one knew of his middle name.  Our clue was that our Bubbie 's 3rd child who had died in infancy was named, "Abraham." 
                                                                                 
 Nate attended Benson High and was a student at Washington High.  Nate drove our 40 Plymouth, dropped me off first and went onto Benson.
                                                                         
He went back to Grand Coulee to graduate from his old high school, though.  

Cousin Nathan served in the army, enlisting December 5, 1958.  He was stationed in Boussac, France.  
                                                        
Nate married Lorraine Slifman on May 28, 1967 in Portland, Oregon.  He must have returned some time around then.  They were almost able to celebrate their 53rd wedding anniversary. They met through relatives.  

Nate and Lorraine wound up with 3 children; two girls and  boy. They have all been most helpful to Nate and Lorraine during this time.  
                                                                        
Benson High taught Nate automobile mechanics, and he became an A one auto mechanic and worked on Lincolns and Fords.  He liked Fords, but liked for himself even better were convertibles.  He and Lorraine were in several parades with their convertibles.  

Wife Lorraine, cousin Anthony Levy and Nate . Looks like we were at the MJCC for an event

                                                                         

Cousins; Me, Don and Nate

Something that came naturally to Nate was keeping things in good order, and that was an important skill in an auto mechanic's world.  I remember how he kept all his tools in good order and in such neat ways.  

Our family always checked with Nate when we needed to buy a new car.  He would usually look it over for us and tell us what he thought, and we valued his opinion.  It was sad for all of us when he had a major stroke which hit his left side, and being left handed, could not work anymore.  
                                                                         

At Cousin Don's 80th in 2017

That's one interesting family gene several of us carry.  Nate and my brother and I are all left-handed.   The male line or Y haplogroup has been tested by my brother, so Nate is included in knowing that they are of QBZ67 after testing.  It's like knowing what branch of the tree of life they are from;  the Q branch.  Being Jewish then puts them on a special twig on that branch.  Both sides of Nate's parents were from Germany.  His Hochfeld side of men were Cohens from Hochfeld, Germany.  Goldfoot was originally spelled " Goldfus." 
                                                       

We'll all miss you, Nate, and thank you for giving us the chance to say how much we love you and what you mean to to us.  You won't be forgotten.  
During this coronavirus period, the funeral is to be of 5 cars with the family staying in the cars; doors closed.  There will be a celebration of life later when we can all come together.  
                                                   

Nadene Goldfoot   
Donald Eichman                                     
Addie Zlata "Hattie"Jermulowske was born  on January 11, 1886 on a Monday and died on a Saturday at the age of 64 years, 10 months and 28 days.  Lazdijai is 54" 14'N,  23"  31'E in Lithuania.  Also spelled as Lozdzieje and it is in Suwalki.    It is 4.3 miles from Poland's border.  For several centuries the territories of Suwalki, Lomza, and Trakai were part of a unified political unit in Greater Lithuania. After that, Suwalki and Lomza were together in the Duchy of Poland while a smaller Trakai was part of Lithuania.  Suwalki is the Gubernia.  Since WWI, Northern part is in Lithuania, southern part in Poland.  Lazdijai was partially in Poland, a major town.  

Cousin Don has lots of memories about his Bubbie.  He was very close to her.  
"My grandmother and me. It is my pleasure to share my memories of my Bobee.
It is impossible for me to separate myself from her. My parents divorced when I was eleven and a half months old. She saw me before I saw her. It was early winter in 1938 when my mother, Elsie, brought me to live with her sister, Haummi(Ann) and her mother Zlata. The four of us lived in a small house directly behind the Neighborhood House, built by the Jewish Relief Society for the Jewish immigrants fleeing from Eastern Europe."        

Nathan Abraham Goldfoot married Zlata "Hattie" Jermulowske on November 20, 1905 in
Council, Washington, Idaho.  She was born on January 11, 1886 in Lazdijai, Suwalki, Lithuania.  At about 4'6" and 107 lbs, she was such a tiny Bubba or Bobbie, as I called her. I'd measure myself with her every time we visited.
(from records doing my genealogy searches)

She was called Zlata or Zlatie by her sister, Jenny.  Hattie must have been the anglicized name. She was listed as Addie on the 1910 census and on her wedding in Council, Idaho in 1905. We grandchildren called her "Bobby" for Bobba, the Yiddish word for Grandmother. 
 Aunt Alice, coming from cousin Sandra, said they were from Lazdijai and our grandmother said Suwalki and both were right.  Lazdijai, spelled Lozdzieje in their day, is in Suwalki Province and the Seinai district, spelled Sejny in their day.  It is 25 miles ENE of the town of Suwalki and Lazdijai started in the year 1570.                                                                         
                                                                     

Anne, Bobbie and Harriet, Anne's firstborn I remember Bubbie's shoulder dislocating and she would be in terrible pain.

  According to the marriage certificate, both Addie and Nathan lived in Council, Idaho, a goldmining town in the mountains now a resort when they married on 20 Nov. 1905.  Her brother in laws, brothers Sam and Harry Criss,  were witnesses.  Other witnesses were C.J. Urdrick and Jamy (possibly Jenny) Criss.  D.J. Richardson was the JP that married them.  Frank E. Smith was the County Recorder.   She said she immigrated from Hamburg, Germany. on the vessel "Altverten" and said she was married.  That means Nathan and she came together though they married in Council, Idaho.  She arrived at New York City port in New York around 6th of May, 1903. (Think she didn't understand the question as she never learned to speak English.)

The name Zlata was a common name in Lithuania and the four NW provinces of the Russian Empire--Vilna, Kovno, Grodno and Minsk.  The 3rd partition of Poland in 1795 added Vilna and Grodno Provinces to the Russian Empire, completing the formation of the so-called Pale of Settlement, the largest Jewish ghetto in the world, which existed for more than a century.  Lithuanian Jews became Russian subjects.
Zlata (Bet Shmu'el) Variants: Slatka, Zlat' (V), Zlatka. The (V) means it came from  Volhyn, present day Zhitomir, Rovno, Luts'k and Volyn regions.  Her mother, Esther, died when she was young, and
her father remarried and had more children.  They became very close to her.
                                                                   

Bobbie with son Moses (Maurice) and me

         She was from Suwalki, Lithuania/Poland.  "The town's population continued to grow rapidly. In 1857 it had 11,273 inhabitants and in 1872 almost 20,000. Newly built factories needed workers and these were brought from all over the world. Because of that, the mixed Lithuania-Polish-Jewish population was soon joined by people of almost all denominations that worshiped in the Russian Empire. Located at "54 14'23 49'.  A Goldfus woman, Sora Rywa Goldfus,  lived in Suwalki and was married to Szimel Breszcz.  In 1883 they had a son, Ick Jankiel Breszcz.

Zlate Jemulosky was written on the birth record of Moses, my father.   Cousin Sandra Oster discovered it was Zlata.  Due to her heavy accent, it was hard to understand her.  Bobbie lived with Sandra's parents, daughter Anne and her husband, Werner Oster.  She must have been on hand to help Anne with all 5 of her daughters.

Zlata had a brother named Louis (Louie) who also lived in South Portland where Zlata lived.
 I received his death certificate and there was no mother mentioned by name.  His birthdate was different from other information (11th Nov 1885)  .  Information was given by Gaulda (Mrs. Goldie Arthur Hahn; daughter.  Even with the later date, he was still born before my grandmother, Hattie who was recorded as 1886.  She said his father was Isaiah Jermulowske.  That was not correct.  Raymond feels that he is the full brother of Alice, Charles and Lily.
2/16/08 On ancestry.com they had him listed originally as Garmsetowske-changed to Jermulowske, on original is was Jermulowske.  It's like Zlata's wedding records in Boise;  they were so badly spelled that it's only through the witness who were the relatives that I could tell who got married, and then a few of the letters made sense.  Descendants of Joshua Charles "Hatzkel" Isaiahel Jermulowskie

1  [2] Joshua Charles "Hatzkel" Isaiahel Jermulowskie b: 1850 in Lazdzieje, Suwalk Gubernia, Lithuania/Poland,  Lazdijai, Suwalki, Russia/Lithuania d: Bet. 1895 - 1950 in Lazdzieje, Suwalk Gubernia, Lithuania
. +Esther "Essie" Unknown b: Abt. 1860 in Lazdzieje, Suwalk Gubernia, Lithuania d: Abt. 1886 in Lazdzieje, Suwalk Gubernia, Lithuania m: Abt. 1876 in prob. Suwalki, Poland
.... 2  Bessie M. Jermulowske b: January 01, 1877 in Lazdijai, Suwalki, Russia/Lithuania d: January 10, 1955 in Los Angeles, California
........ +Samuel Criss b: 1858 in Germany/Poland d: June 18, 1928 in Portland, Oregon m: January 17, 1901 in Council, Washington County, Idaho
.... 2  [1] Jenny "Sheina" Jermulowske b: April 03, 1881 in Lazdijai,Suwalki, Lithuania/Russia d: April 02, 1973 in prob. Los Angeles, California
........ +Harry L. Criss b: June 1869 in Poland/Germany on 1900 census age 30 d: January 07, 1933 in Nampa, Idaho age 54 m: Bef. June 04, 1900 in prob. Council, Washington County,  Idaho
.... *2nd Husband of [1] Jenny "Sheina" Jermulowske:
........ +Parker b: Abt. 1880 m: Aft. 1930
.... 2  [3] Louis Lewis Jermulowske Jermulowski b: November 15, 1883 in Russian Poland/ Ladija "Laada" Lazdijai, Lithuania d: May 13, 1963 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
........ +[4] Dinah Dina Rosenfeld b: April 15, 1887 in Ekaterinia, Katrinislav, Russia/Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine d: March 19, 1963 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon m: January 12, 1908 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, at the home of M. Rosenfeld, her parents.
.... 2  Addie Zlata "Hattie Ettie" Jermulowske b: January 11, 1886 in Lazdijai Lozdzieje, Alytraus, Suwalki Zuwalta", Lithuania d: December 09, 1950 in Portland, Oregon
........ +Nathan "Nokhim Avram"Abraham" of Abram Goldfus b: January 01, 1871 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania d: July 19, 1912 in Portland, Oregon m: November 20, 1905 in Council, Washington County, Idaho

*2nd Wife of [2] Joshua Charles "Hatzkel" Isaiahel Jermulowskie:
. +Dora Leah "Deborah" b: Abt. 1850 in "Russia" d: Bet. 1895 - 1950 in Poland/, Russia m: Abt. 1882 in prob. Suwalki, Poland/Russia
.... 2  [3] Louis Lewis Jermulowske Jermulowski b: November 15, 1883 in Russian Poland/ Ladija "Laada" Lazdijai, Lithuania d: May 13, 1963 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
........ +[4] Dinah Dina Rosenfeld b: April 15, 1887 in Ekaterinia, Katrinislav, Russia/Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine d: March 19, 1963 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon m: January 12, 1908 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, at the home of M. Rosenfeld, her parents.
.... 2  Lilly Jermulowske b: July 16, 1889 in Lazdijai, Suwalki, Russia/ Poland/Lithuania d: March 02, 1962 in San Francisco, California
........ +Frank Weisberg b: October 14, 1882 in Yobora, Russia d: June 03, 1961 in Sacramento, California m: December 12, 1909 in Portland, Mult. Co., Oregon
.... 2  Charles Jermulososki Jermulowske b: May 27, 1894 in Serock, Poland "Zurok", Russia, Lazdijai, "Lastha" Suwalki, Russia/Poland/ Lithuania d: July 12, 1959 in LaGrande, Union County, Oregon
........ +Anna Neimark Naimark b: May 08, 1897 in Russia d: January 26, 1973 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon 97233 m: 1924 in prob. Portland, Multnomah County,/LaGrande Oregon
.... 2  Alice Jermulowske b: April 16, 1896 in Lazdijai, Suwalki,  Lithuania, Russia d: April 10, 1990 in Portland, Oregon
........ +Max "Himmel" I Turshinsky Turn b: December 01, 1889 in Równa, Lódzkie, Poland d: April 21, 1986 in Portland, Oregon m: Abt. 1916 in prob. Portland, Oregon
.... 2  Abram Owsej Ajzykowicz Jermulowski b: 1898 in Bialystock, Poland d: 1898 in Bialystock, Poland ??

Max Jermaine and wife Anita Barkan from daughter Kathleen: My mother and father, Max Jermaine,  were both very musical in their younger days. My dad sang all the time and my mom always played piano and sang. She still likes to play piano on occasion. Another footnote is that Sam Jermane also had a pretty good voice. On my dad's 60th birthday, he and Sam sang some songs together.  Louis was a brother of Zlata.  Louis's first child Ezra, died in 1908.  Another died in 1910.  Then he had Samuel (Zavel) in 1913, Goldie in 1916, and Max (Motle) in 1921.		My dad died of the same things my Grandfather did.  The difference was Dad was 66 years old and was also diabetic (inherited from Dina) so I'm sure that escalated the heart and organ issues.  My Dad was very disciplined with his diet , the last 20 years of his life but the process had begun by the time he found out (in his 40's ) his Dr. told him he needed to change his health lifestyle or he wouldn't live very long.  Unfortunately this was during the time when my folks had split up (my Dad was heartbroken) stress, eating (he loved sweets) and smoking(he quit immediately). Had he known in his 30's he may have lived a great deal longer.  Who's to say . . . but my Dad would have given his last breath of air if he could for those he loved.

My Bobbie did not speak English.  She said she was a Litvak.   She had no education in Lithuania/Poland/or Russia.She probably was a Litvak.  The borders kept changing.  The Litvak Jews lived in what is now Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, and parts of Poland.  Your grandmother's family probably came from a town in either the Vilna province or the Suvalki "Suwalki"  province.  On 1920 census is says estimated birth year was 1879.  Suwalki is a gubernia, and Bialystok is a Province there, latitude 54-06, and longitude 22-56.
                                                                                                           

Max "Motle" Jermaine, son of Bobbie's brother, Louis, in WWII. He was born in 1921.

  She was left a widow with a new baby, my aunt Anne aka Hammie.  Her Yiddish name was Zlottie(Zlata).

                               

Great Aunt Jennie (Sheina) and me at an Oregon beach

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Jenny Criss, Bobbie's sister and my mother, Mildred

 She came over here  from  Lithuania in 1899 according to the 1910 census.  She was 4- 6 years younger than her husband.  (Her sisters said they came from Poland.)   However, she always said that she was a Litvak. Lazdijai was taken over by Poland.  I found records I needed would be in Poland.
  She lived in her little house after the children grew up.  Later, she lived with Ann and Werner and helped take care of the children.

  My grandmother Hattie"Zlotta" came over from  "Russia"on May 6, 1903 along with her sisters Jenny and Bessie.  She was 17.  Bessie was  21 or 20.  Jenny must have been about 11 years old.  I have not found them in the Ellis Island Port yet.  On the Declaration of Intention paper, she said she came here via Hamburg, Germany on the ship Altverten and landed in New York.

Her name was spelled Zlate Jemulosky on Dad's birth certificate.  He was born at 277 Baker St, the residence his parents lived in.  His name was Moses Goldfoot.

Bobbie (Hattie, Addie, Zlata) always said she was a Litvak.  She never said she was Polish.  That was on the census.  It was said with pride as Lithuania was a special place, home of famous rabbis and a place of Jewish education.

On the Declaration of Intention of May 17, 1917, at age 31, she states she came from Zuwalta (Suwalki) , Russia to Hamburg, Germany on the vessel Altverten { possibly be Altai or Aultman} as that's the only ship I can find on Stephen Morse list and was married.  Her grandson David, my brother,  said it might have been  the "Antwerpen".   She came to New York on the 6th of May 1903.  She had black hair and brown eyes and was dark complected.  She was only 64 years old when she died. This was written by a clerk in the circuit court.

She was married in November 20, 1905 to Nathan Goldfoot in Council, Idaho, where her sisters Bessie was married to Sam Criss and Jennie was married to Harry Criss and Louis Jermulowske was single and living in Council in 1901 or 1902.  He didn't marry until 1908 and that was in Portland, OR.  She probably lived in Cuprum, Idaho with her sisters, a small mining town close to Council before she married.  I've learned that she worked in Cuprum, probably washing dishes in their restaurant.

More from Kathleen on Zlata's brother, Max Jermaine: My Dad had mentioned once that my Grandfather Louis came to America separately and by way of England, so you've got that right.  I believe he did come over later than his siblings, not because of choice but opportunity. I remember it being mentioned that he followed his family to Oregon sometime after they had arrived.  The story I was told was that when he went through Ellis Island they asked him his name and he said Louis and asked for his last name and he repeated Louis, so for a while his info said Louis Louis until he got it corrected.  I was also told that Louis was suppose to marry my Grandmother's sister but had fallen in love with the younger sister Dina (Dinah Rosenfeld) and so they married.  He owned scrapyards in Boise and Weiser Idaho but when he first began his business they would call his line of work,  Junkmen.  Before he retired, my Dad (Max)  took over the Weiser yard with Uncle Sam and eventually Sam left for San Francisco and my Dad was handling the remaining scrapyard in Weiser, Idaho early on in my folks marriage & while raising us .
I was told my Grandfolks spent a great deal apart while my Grandfather Louis was managing the businesses in Boise & Weiser, simultaneously while my Grandma raised the children in Portland.  The info that was on my Grandfather's death certificate was probably offered by Max's sister, Gaulda Jermulowske Hahn as she was living in Portland at the time of their passing.

Charlie was a brother of Zlata's.  Charlie was Maurice Goldfoot's favorite uncle.  He was the youngest of the siblings, and Maurice didn't have a father, so Charlie was close to him. The Hebrew translation for Ezekiel is Yechezkel.
  He died at about the age of 64 years. He and wife Anna Neimark's children were Jerome and Dorothy.
 I found his WWI draft registration.  He was single and living in the Weiser Hotel in Weiser, Idaho.  He was listed as an alien.  He came from Lastha, "Laszdai" Suwalki, Russia.  He had had no military experience.  He was short, slender, had dark brown eyes and black hair..  He was a hide buyer who worked for himself.  I see that both Louis and Charles were hide buyers.  The question still remains if they were full brothers or half brothers.  I'm going by the WWI Draft/Reg paper that Louis filled out that by his birthdate he would have been from the 1st wife of their father.  Charles would be from the 2nd wife.
 He died at age 65 years  1 month 15 days.  I just found his WWI draft paper with name spelled Charles Jermulososki /Jermedowake with the name of the town that he was born in.  It was Lastha, Suwalki, Russia.  This is probably the town all the siblings were born in.
  I found an Ecke Jermalowsky b: 1893 arriving in New York on FINLAND from Lasde, Suwalki, Russia, but listed as a female arriving 23 August 1910 at age 17.  Surely the information on sex would be correct.  The port was Antwerp, Belgium and they left August 13, 1910.  The age is close to Charles and his name would have been a Yiddish one.
There was no social security number listed for Charles.
                                                                 

Shal "Saul" Turnshinsky born about 1845 in Lodz, Poland, probably married to Rebecca (Rivka)

       
Alice Jermulowske was married to Max Turnshinsky Turn.  They had a furniture store in LaGrande.
I saw a black and white  photo of Max'x grandfather and was able to borrow it as a model for my next oil painting venture.  Here's my painting of Shal "Saul" Turnshinsky, a Talmud Scholar.  
Alice and Max had two daughters, Sylvia and Annette.  Sylvia married Abner Verbin in about 1942 and they had Joel and David Verbin.  Annette married Dr. 
Elliot Sagall and they moved to the east coast.  They had 2 boys, Richard and Ronald.  

Lilly Jermulowske, sister of Zlata, married Frank Weisberg, born in Russia. They moved to California and had 3 boys; Avraham, Charles, and Raymond.  Raymond was a doctor and married Marilyn Kaplan.  They had Dvora and Adam.  Dvora became a rabbi.   
                                                    

  The mt haplogroup of my grandmother (Bubbie or Bobbie) Zlata "Hattie" Jermulowske is W or W1h.  Haplogroup W is believed to have originated around 23,900 years ago in Western Asia. It is descended from the haplogroup N2.


References:  my genealogical notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_W_(mtDNA)
1st cousin, A. Donald Eichman

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                                             
Careful selections in marriage lead to dynasties being created which can include a future of very productive people.  

I am connected through DNA testing, to Rabbi Samson Wertheimer born in 1658 who was born in Worms, Germany in 1658 or more likely, to his brother.

This is quite a surprise to me.  He was a famous man who loaned money with his Uncle Oppenheimer to kings and queens.  

Now I find that there was a Wertheim Dynasty.  The reason we have their genealogy tree is because rabbis thought well of having this genealogy and kept doing it.  They felt it important to keep up the tradition of having rabbis in the family in these days of arranged marriages, and used it for arranged marriages.  They wanted to their children to marry into another rabbinical family.    It stems from history from biblical days of being a part of the 71 decision makers of the Sanhedrin.  To be in the Sanhedrin, one needed proof of their genealogy.  The head was usually a descendent of Hillel.  

My DNA 4th to distant cousin, Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull and Dr.Jeffrey Briskman, my 5th to distant cousin,  have written an article titled CONNECTING TO THE WERTHEIM-GITERMAN RABBINICAL LINEAGE THROUGH Y-DNA.  This was just posted in Acadamia.
                                                           

Reading the Torah on Saturday in Synagogue

That would be through the men's Y haplogroup.  My father's line is QBZ67.  Jews from Aaron who are called Cohens happen to be DNA Cohens of J1. I see that 2 out of the 4 Wertheimers that match me are J1s.  One is an E-M35 and the other is unknown.  My brother matched one that I did and was his 5th cousin, and 2 others that I didn't match.  One was his 4th and the other a 5th cousin.  2 of the 3 were J1s, a J-M172 and J-A15512.  These were Wertheimers.  We didn't match any Wertheims.  

Rabbi Aryeh Leib Wertheim of Bendery was born in 1772, over 100 years after Rabbi Samson Wertheimer.  The Dynasty had been in existence for quite a while.  Bendery was in the Ukraine.  It's now called Bender, Moldova.  This would be a Hasidic group.  
                                                        

A modern Leah Hirsch who might be related to Rabbi Aryeh's wife, Leah Hirsch. I only hope our original Leah was as lovely.

Rabbi Aryeh's 1st wife was Leah Hirsch.  Hirsch is a surname of many Rabbis
and well-known people.  There was Emil Gustav II born in 1852, a reform rabbi who immigrated to Chicago, son of Samuel Hirsch born in 1815, chief rabbi of Luxemburg from 1843 to 1865.  There was Baron de Hirsch Fund from Baron Maurice de Hirsch born 1831, a banker and philanthropist from Munich, Germany.  Max Hirsch born 1832 was a German economist and labor leader.  Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch born 1808 was a German leader of Jewish Orthodoxy and was chief rabbi of Moravia in 1846.  Solomon Hirsch born 1839 was a US diplomat.  He was a merchant in Portland, Oregon.  Solomon served in both the Senate Legislature and State Senate and was the US minister to Turkey from 1889 to 1892.  A Jewish man in Turkey!
                                                      

 Her grandparents were Rabbi Menahem Nakhum Twersky who was married to Sarah Shapiro from the Shapiro rabbis, and that included  Rabbi Twersky.  He was born in 1730 and died in 1797, part of Twersky Hasidic Dynasty,  and was living at Chernobyl. 
Rabbi Menahem Nakhum Twersky was a pupil of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidic Judaism,  who was known as the maggid of Chernobyl.  He was succeeded by his son, Rabbi Mordecai who died in 1837 whose place was filled by his 8 sons.  

Another Twersky  who was born in 1900 was Yohanan, a Hebrew novelist.  He wasn't a rabbi but was part of the Ukrainian Hasidic family.  He had studied in Germany, but lived and taught in the USA, and in 1947 make aliyah and lived in Israel.  Twersky was a prolific author chiefly of biographical works.  He wrote about Uriel Acosta, Ahad Ha-Am, Dreyfus, Freud, Rashi, and M.M. Noah.  

Rabbi Aryeh and wife Leah Hirsch had a daughter named Sima Wertheim.  She married Rabbi Eliyahu Pinkhas Polensky, a great grandson of Rabbi Pinkhas Shapira of Koretz, Ukraine.  
                                                         

Israel ben Eliezer AKA Baal Shem Tov b: about 1700 d: 1760

There is the Shapiro Rabbinical Dynasty.  Shapiro was a family of Hasidic tzaddikim and printers in Volhynia, between Poland and Belarus .  Phinehas Shapiro of Koretz who died in 1791 was a pupil of the Baal Shem Tov, and was the author of the Hasidic classic, Midrash Pinhas.  His son, Moses Shapiro -born in 1758, was from 1808 the tzaddik at Slavura where he printed the Talmud at his own press.  Karl Jay Shapiro has been since 1956 a professor of English at the U of Nebraska.  He is  a US poet and works include V-letter and Other Poems, Essay on Rime, and Trial of a Poet.  

Resource: Connecting to the Wertheim-Giterman Rabbinical Lineage through Y-DNA.  by Drs. Jeffrey Paull and Jeffrey Briskman 
 The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

Nadene Goldfoot                                                             

Nathan Abraham Goldfus (Goldfoot)

Nathan was born in Telsiai, Lithuania on January 1, 1871 and emigrated to England, then Dublin,  Ireland and finally landed in Council, Idaho after taking a ship from Ireland to Quebec, Canada.  In Council he met Zlata "Hattie" Jermulowske born January 11, 1886 in Lazdijai, Suwalki, Lithuania, which became part of Poland,  and they married on November 20, 1905.  Then they moved to Portland, Oregon with baby Charlie in 1906.  He died July 19, 1912 .  Nathan had a horse and wagon given to him by a helpful Jewish society.  He delivered goods in this wagon from the Willamette River to SE Portland.  One day the horse was spooked and ran, tipping over and Nathan hit his head and was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.  It was the old one, not the new one that his great grandson, Steve Henwood has worked in as a nurse.  He died, not waking up, on a Friday, July 19, 1912.  In the meantime, his wife Zlata, 5 months pregnant, was most upset as she didn't know what had happened.  He hadn't come home for Shabbas and she was besides herself.  Finally, after he had passed away, his friend came and told her, and she was so upset, of course!  She cursed the man for not coming to her on Friday to tell her, and he died 2 years later.  Baby Ann was then born on November 11, 1912.  Nathan hadn't trusted banks, but hid his money, he told Zlata, in the horse shed.  She searched and searched but never did find it.
                                                                                           

Outgoing, full of heck, great dresser Uncle Charlie

Charlie on left, Moshe (Morris) on right

Their first son, Charles, was born there September 22, 1906.  He and his brother, Maurice, attended Failing Grade School in South Portland, which was near the Neighborhood House and the Gulch where Zlata raised goats for a while.  Then she worked plucking chickens.  Uncle Charles married Helen Hochfeld on July 11, 1929 in Portland, Oregon. Her folks had a big department store.    They moved to Grand Coulee, Washington in 1939  where Charlie had a clothing store and was a volunteer with their fire department.  Charlie died on December 17, 1949.  My dad, Maurice, drove up there to attend the funeral and brought back my cousin, Nate Goldfoot who lived with us for a while.  I remember my dad got us a 40 Plymouth and Nate drove us to school where he dropped me off at Washington High and he continued on to Benson High just beyond it.                     
                                                                                                                               

Aunt Elsie Eichman holding me

Nate, myself and Uncle Charlie

       

Morris Goldfoot AKA Billy Meshke

                                     

Charlie Goldfoot with son Nathan

Maurice, Mildred, Nada and David (b:1942) if David's 3, I'm 11; possible-or David 5 and I'm 13.

Maurice at the coast.

           

Me and my Dad, Maurice

                                                                             

Me and my Dad Morrie

Moses (Morris--Maurice Goldfoot was born in Portland on July 1, 1908.  He remembered sitting on his dad's lap who had a beard.  He loved playing on the baseball team at Commerce High but wasn't able to finish and graduate as he felt he needed to go to work to help support his mom and his 3 other siblings.  His parents had had a 3rd son born, Abraham,  in August of 1909,   who died when an infant in his parents' feather bed.  Since then 2 daughters were born; Elsie and Ann, the baby Anne born after their father's death 4 months later.  .Morrie met my mother, Mildred Elizabeth Robinson in South Portland where he worked in a butcher shop.  She was living with a Jewish family, the Gurions,  as their nanny.  She would walk by the butcher shop with her charges and he noticed her, talked and they dated.  They married on April 29, 1932.  I was born in 1934, 6 months after Charles and Helen's son, Nathan Bernard.
Eight years later, my brother, David  Goldfoot was born.                                

Nada, Don at Zoo

                                                                         

Zlata (Bobbie) with Moshe and me.

Aunt Elsie with her black hair took after her mother's coloring.

Elsie was born on March 10, 1911.  I remember that she worked in Mosler's Bakery, and so did Anne, her little sister.  The girls were able to finish high school.  Elsie worked with Al (Albert) Eichman at the bakery, and they married on February 3, 1934.  Don was born in November of 1937.
                                                   

Anne, Zlata and Harriett, her first child

                         

Married in South Portland in Neveh Zedek Synagogue by Rabbi Kleinman.

Anne Naomi Goldfoot was born November 11, 1912, after her father had died in the horse and wagon accident.  She met Werner Oster through my dad, Meshke since their uncle Max  had sponsored him, a German Jewish refugee, and got him a job with my father's new business of Lincoln Wholesale Meats across the street from the Lincoln Theater in South Portland.  Werner's parents had had a sausage market in Germany.  Werner got out of Germany in May of 1939 and went to New York first.  I have in my records that they married September 1, 1939.  I remember being the flower girl in their wedding.  We have the movie reel of the wedding.                           

David, Charlotte, Dianne, 2 neighbors, Joan Padrow, Pat Schumacher, Pat Gustin, Donald Hart, Nadene for David's birthday?

                 

Maurice holding David, Uncle Kennie Robinson holding Charlotte, and Werner holding Darlene in our back yard.  I'm about 10, sitting on the grass. Standing is Dianne Robinson, Harriet Oster and Donnie Eichman, all my cousins and brother.  Taken before 1946 when Kenneth Robinson was born.  Charlotte was born in 1942, so it must have been in 1944. Gee, it was cool that we all got together with our fathers like this. Cousins galore from Mom's side and Dad's side.   On the left is Rabbi Abraham Goldberg born in England who lived in Israel.  He was the man who helped to steer me to Telsiai, Lithuania to find our Goldfus/Goldfoot line.  He was slaughtered in a synagogue in Israel by terrorists.  It was after that when I was notified of his death that I had found out he was a rabbi.  He's connected to Stanley Goldfoot's line.