Goldfoot Genealogy

      Here is Oppenheim, Germany, where the surname must have originated from.  Oppenheim is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is a well-known wine center, being the home of the German Winegrowing Museum, and is particularly known for the wines from the Oppenheimer Krötenbrunnen vineyards.

 Nadene Goldfoot

I've been reading the book, Heshel's Kingdom by Dan Jacobson about his Lithuanian family and grandfather, Rabbi Heshel Melamed of Lithuania who's father-in-law and the author's great-grandfather, Zvi Yakov Opppenheim.  The book tells of intimate details about Lithuania, even mentions Telz, which is also spelled as Telsiai, where our Goldfus/foots were from.

On our family tree, we have many Oppenheims and Oppenheimers on our Telsiai branch of the tree.  The Oster line that has married into our line also has many Oppenheimers on it.  We are related by DNA to the Oster line even though we have no connection from eastern Europe.  It must have happened while both were Jews in Germany at the beginning of our German experience of becoming Ashkenazim and must have been quite close at one time being our closeness now.

On Family Tree DNA, I myself have 8 matches with Oppenheim. One is a 3rd cousin; 2 are 4th cousins and 5 are 5th cousins.  The 3rd cousin is female, S. Oppenheim which could be a married name, so a man would be Dr. R. Oppenheimer on my father's side with the icon, 4th cousin. I match Dr R.O. on chromosome #7 with my brother, and Ian; on #10 with myself, David, Ian and Sandra, and #14 with myself, David.   With another set of people, I see that chromosome #18 had a female 5th cousin A Oppenheimer match David, Myself and 3rd cousin Mrs. Andi Z with a small segment.  I'm going by the color coding chart with is easy to use 7 people at one time to check on matching.  

OPPENHEIM, town in Germany. Jews are first mentioned there in the tax register of 1241, according to which they were obliged to pay the emperor an annual tax of 15 marks. The Jews of the town, legally the property of the emperor, were placed under the protection of the officers in charge of the local fortress, to whom they paid their taxes. They also paid a house tax to the archbishop of Mainz. *Rudolf of Hapsburg and other kings gave letters of credit to various noblemen which were to be defrayed from the taxes paid by the Jews of Oppenheim; at times, they also leased these taxes. The burden of their taxes appears to have caused several Jews of Oppenheim to join the group that fled from the Rhineland and, under the leadership of *Meir b. Baruch of Rothenburg, attempted to emigrate to Ereẓ Israel (1285). At the end of July 1349, during the persecutions that followed the *Black Death, most of the Jews of Oppenheim were murdered, while others chose martyrdom (*kiddush ha-Shem) and burned themselves to death in order to escape forced conversion at the hands of the mob. Among the martyrs was the rabbi Joel ha-Kohen. (more info in resource), below.)

People in my "The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia" are listed:  

Samuel Oppenheim/Oppenheimer b: 1630 philanthropist, court Jew, Germany to Vienna, Leopold's I's agent and financier.  

David Oppenheim b: 1664, rabbi born in Worms, Germany nephew of Samuel Oppenheimer

Joseph ben Issachar Susskind Oppenheimer 1698, financier in Germany

Hermann Oppenheim b: 1858 Germany, neurologist

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim b: 1800 Germany, painter

Oppenheimer, David b: 1832 Canada, founder of city of Vancouver, Ontario, mayor

Oppenheimer, Sir Ernest b: 1880 South Africa, mining-Kimberley, probably Lithuanian, baptised

Franz Oppenheimer, b: 1864 Germany

Robert J. Oppenheimer b: 1904, US physicist, U of C, atomic energy research

Through genealogy, I see this connection:

Descendants of Sender Opengeim Oppenheim

1  Sender Opengeim Oppenheim b: Abt. 1814 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania

. 2  Iontaf Jontaf Opengeim b: 1839 in Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania

..... +GUTTA GOLDA bat Nochem GOLDFUS b: 1839 in Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania m: September 04, 1859 in Telsiai, Lithuania m: September 04, 1859 in Telsiai, Lithuania

. 2  Iosif OPPENHEIM b: Abt. 1841

..... +Guta (Golda)

. 2  [1] Shaia Opengeim OPPENHEIM b: Bet. 1842 - 1843 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania

..... +Zlate Pere

. *2nd Wife of [1] Shaia Opengeim OPPENHEIM:

..... +Tsipe Guta b: 1843 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania m: Bef. 1865 in Telsiai, Lithuania m: Bef. 1865 in Telsiai, Lithuania

. 2  [2] Leib Opengeim OPPENHEIM b: Abt. 1845 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania

..... +Rokhel b: Abt. 1845

. *2nd Wife of [2] Leib Opengeim OPPENHEIM:

..... +Grunia

. 2  Iomta Opengeim b: Abt. 1849 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania

..... +Gute b: Abt. 1849 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania m: Abt. 1869 m: Abt. 1869

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