Goldfoot Genealogy: Rabbi Abraham Shmuel Goldberg, Part of the Goldfoot Line

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Rabbi Abraham Shmuel Goldberg, Part of the Goldfoot Line

Nadene Goldfoot

Rabbi Abraham Shmuel Goldberg 68 possibly Rabbi Moshe Twersky 59

A man who helped me a great deal in my genealogy searches for Goldfoot was Abraham Shmuel Goldberg who was living in Israel. I didn't know it then but he was a rabbi and was born in Liverpool South of Lancashire, England, part of the Goldfoot line connecting to Ian Goldfoot of South Africa/England. It was he who told me about Telsiai, Lithuania and how important it was to find someone with Abraham in his whole name. He was saying his morning prayers in a synagogue in Jerusalem when 2 terrorists came in and attacked with knives, and he and 4 American rabbis were slaughtered. This was on November 18, 2014.

I never did find out how Abraham was connected to the Goldfoot line. He was an only child, and his wife's name is Breine. His mother's maiden name was Sheinfield. His occupation was that of a chemical engineer. He and his wife make aliyah in 1991. He's buried in Givit Shaul Cemetery in Jerusalem.

"In Jerusalem, thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews swayed in prayer at the funeral of Twersky, a descendant of two rabbinical dynasties. He was the head of an English-speaking religious college in Jerusalem, the son of Isadore Twersky, the founder of Harvard University’s Centre for Jewish Studies, and the grandson of a founder of the Modern Orthodox movement. "

The other American rabbis killed were Rabbi Kalman Levine 55, and Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky.

It happens that Goldberg is a name that many share DNA segments with me. They all aren't related to each other. I hope some have Abraham Shmuel on their tree and notify me.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/18/uk-born-victim-israel-synagogue-attack-avraham-shmuel-goldberg

Labels: Abraham Shmuel Goldberg, Goldfoot, Jerusalem, Rabbi Moshe Twersky, synagogue, terrorist attack