Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Alperovitch: Our Goldfoot Connection to Rabbi Wertheimer of 1658-1724 Germany and Austria
Nadene Goldfoot
Our genealogy connects through Alperovitch somehow. My grandparents were Zlata Jermulowske and Nathan Abraham Goldfus of Lithuania. Alperovitch connects to Wertheimer, and the man of genealogical importance to us was Rabbi Samson Wertheimer 1658-1724.
I found an Alperovitch in Russia. Son of Michael Alperovitch, he was born in 1980 in Russia. He's even made it to Wikipedia. Now he's an American and had attended Georgia Institute of Technology. "Alperovitch was awarded the prestigious Federal 100 Award for his contributions to the U.S. federal information security and was recognized in 2013 and 2015 as one of Washingtonian (magazine)'s Tech Titans for his accomplishments in the field of cyber security."
" In August 2011, as vice president of threat research at McAfee, he published Operation Shady RAT, a report on suspected Chinese intrusions into at least 72 organizations, including defense contractors, businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee."
My family has computer geniuses. Is it the genes? Could be.
In the book, "Finding Our Fathers" by Dan Rottenberg: , Alpern says, See Heilprin.
Heilprin says, also: Halpern, Heilbronn, Heilbrunn, Heilperin, Heilbron, Heilbroner, Heilperin,
Heilpern, Heilborn, Halperin, Helpern, Alpron, Galpern, Heilprun, Galperin, Halper, Heilpern.
Heilborn, Halperin, Helpern, Alpron, Galpern, Heilprun, Galperin, Halper, Helpern.
It's a German name derived from the town of Heilbronn in Wurttemberg. All Jews with these
variations are not necessarily related. Many Jews of Austria, Germany and Russia
indisciminately assumed these names when they were ordered to take family names.
However, 4 branches of the Heilprin name have been found. JE encyclopedia has charts
for 3 of the branches. Many Russians claim the 4th branch.
The oldest is Zebulon Heilprin of the 16th century. His son was Moses of Brest-Litovsk and
was the father-in-law of Samuel Edels.
Another branch comes from Lithuanian Rabbi Jehiel Heilprin (1660-1746), a descendant of
Solomon Luria, who traced his genealogy back through RASHI (1040-1105). I lived in Safed,
Israel where his synagogue was built and where he lived.
Another Heilprin branch is also related to the BAAL SHEMTOV, founder of Hasidism.
Biographies are in JE. Most people are from Poland, Russia and Germany. There is an EJ
article on Abraham ben Hayyim of Lublin Poland who died in 1762. He was the grandson of
Isser, whose son married FORTIS. 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.
Relatives found include KATZENELLENBOGEN and others listed in the book. Goldfus
was not there.
JE=Jewish Encyclopedia
EJ=Encyclopedia Judaica
CAJ=Central Archives, Jerusalem
LBI=Leo Beck Institute, NY
LBIS=Leo Beck Institute, Rudolf Simonis collection
RASHI traces back to King David. Rashi was a famous Talmudic rabbi and the most famous
Talmudic commentator of the 11th century France. His is supposed to have descended in the
33rd generation from Johanan ha- Sandalar, who lived in 2nd century Egypt. Johanan was a
great-grandson of Rabbi Gamaliel the Elder, who was in turn the grandson of Hillel the Great,
the sage who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod and Jesus.
Hillel is the scholar who was once asked by a scornful heathen to explain Judaism while stand-
ing on one foot. Hillel replied, "What is hateful to thee, do not unto thy fellow man. This is the
whole law, the rest is mere commentary."
Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Alperovitch
Finding Our Fathers, a guidebook to Jewish Genealogy, by Dan Rottenbergm 1977.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/judaism-biographies/rashi
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| Nathan Abraham Goldfus/foot of Telsiai, Lithuania |
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| Zlata Jermulowske of Lazdijai, Lithuania |
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| Dmitri Alperovitch |
I found an Alperovitch in Russia. Son of Michael Alperovitch, he was born in 1980 in Russia. He's even made it to Wikipedia. Now he's an American and had attended Georgia Institute of Technology. "Alperovitch was awarded the prestigious Federal 100 Award for his contributions to the U.S. federal information security and was recognized in 2013 and 2015 as one of Washingtonian (magazine)'s Tech Titans for his accomplishments in the field of cyber security."
" In August 2011, as vice president of threat research at McAfee, he published Operation Shady RAT, a report on suspected Chinese intrusions into at least 72 organizations, including defense contractors, businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee."
My family has computer geniuses. Is it the genes? Could be.
In the book, "Finding Our Fathers" by Dan Rottenberg: , Alpern says, See Heilprin.
Heilprin says, also: Halpern, Heilbronn, Heilbrunn, Heilperin, Heilbron, Heilbroner, Heilperin,
Heilpern, Heilborn, Halperin, Helpern, Alpron, Galpern, Heilprun, Galperin, Halper, Heilpern.
Heilborn, Halperin, Helpern, Alpron, Galpern, Heilprun, Galperin, Halper, Helpern.
It's a German name derived from the town of Heilbronn in Wurttemberg. All Jews with these
variations are not necessarily related. Many Jews of Austria, Germany and Russia
indisciminately assumed these names when they were ordered to take family names.
However, 4 branches of the Heilprin name have been found. JE encyclopedia has charts
for 3 of the branches. Many Russians claim the 4th branch.
The oldest is Zebulon Heilprin of the 16th century. His son was Moses of Brest-Litovsk and
was the father-in-law of Samuel Edels.
Another branch comes from Lithuanian Rabbi Jehiel Heilprin (1660-1746), a descendant of
Solomon Luria, who traced his genealogy back through RASHI (1040-1105). I lived in Safed,
Israel where his synagogue was built and where he lived.
Another Heilprin branch is also related to the BAAL SHEMTOV, founder of Hasidism.
Biographies are in JE. Most people are from Poland, Russia and Germany. There is an EJ
article on Abraham ben Hayyim of Lublin Poland who died in 1762. He was the grandson of
Isser, whose son married FORTIS. 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.
Relatives found include KATZENELLENBOGEN and others listed in the book. Goldfus
was not there.
JE=Jewish Encyclopedia
EJ=Encyclopedia Judaica
CAJ=Central Archives, Jerusalem
LBI=Leo Beck Institute, NY
LBIS=Leo Beck Institute, Rudolf Simonis collection
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| RASHI |
RASHI traces back to King David. Rashi was a famous Talmudic rabbi and the most famous
Talmudic commentator of the 11th century France. His is supposed to have descended in the
33rd generation from Johanan ha- Sandalar, who lived in 2nd century Egypt. Johanan was a
great-grandson of Rabbi Gamaliel the Elder, who was in turn the grandson of Hillel the Great,
the sage who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod and Jesus.
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| Hillel of 1st century BCE |
Hillel is the scholar who was once asked by a scornful heathen to explain Judaism while stand-
ing on one foot. Hillel replied, "What is hateful to thee, do not unto thy fellow man. This is the
whole law, the rest is mere commentary."
Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Alperovitch
Finding Our Fathers, a guidebook to Jewish Genealogy, by Dan Rottenbergm 1977.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/judaism-biographies/rashi
Labels: Austria, Dmitri Alperovitch, Finding Our Fathers, Germany, Hillel, Lihuania, Rashi, Samson Wetheimer, Zebulon Heilprin
Thursday, June 04, 2015
Research Places for Wertheimer and Oppenheim
Nadene Goldfoot
Wertheim/also Wertheimer--Ashkenazi name taken from
the town of Wertheim in Baden.
JE and UJ have biographies from 17th cent. Austria
and 19-cent. Austria, Hungary, England and USA.
LBI has Werheimer family trees beginning 17th
cent., 1721, 1738, and 1770, related to Fraaenkel, and a Wertheimber tree
beginning 1588.
AJA has a Wertheimer tree from Dayton, Ohio, and
Denver, Colo, beginning 1815
PD and CAJ have Wertheimer family
records.
See Wertheimer family history in JFF, Nos 7,8,9 and
10.
Also see Samson Wertheimer, der Oberhoffactor und
Landes-Rabbiner, 1658-1724; Verzeichnis der nachkkommen des Leopold und der
Rosa Wolf, 1800-1866; and
AJF (1912) p. 12.
JE article on "Coat of Arms" has the Wertheimer
family crest.
Related to Samson, Katz, Oppenheim, Oppenheimer,
Kann, Bermann, Behrens, Eskeles, Kohn, Hirsch, Levi, Konigswarter, Lehmann,
Kahn, Brunner, Leides-dorfer, Gomperz, Arnstein, Boas and Wolf.
JE=Jewish Encyclopedia 1901-1906, public
library, also online: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com
UJ=Universal Jewish Encyclopedia 10 volumes
1939-1948, public library
LBI= Archives of the Leo Baeck Institute in
NY
AJA=American Jewish Archives
PD= Paul Diamant collection at the central archives
for the history of the Jewish people in Jerusalem.
CAJ= Material from the genealogy or family file at
the central archives for the history of the Jewish people in
Jerusalem
JFF=hope he meant FFJ=Judische Familien-Forschung.
Googling Wertheimer came up with some famous people:
Wertheimer is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname:
People with this surname include:
- Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, French Jewish billionaire owners of Chanel
- Wertheimer et Frère, partnership of the two brothers
- Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer (1894-1957), Austrian and German diplomat, journalist, jurist and political scientist
- Esther Wertheimer, Polish architect
- François Wertheimer, French singer (article in French Wikipedia)
- Fred Wertheimer, American political activist
- Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-born Israeli biochemist
- Jack Wertheimer, professor of American Jewish history
- Jacques Wertheimer, father of Pierre
- Arjeh Yehuda Wertheimer (1862-1937), known as Constantin Brunner, German-Jewish philosopher
- Linda Wertheimer, American broadcast journalist for National Public Radio
- Max Wertheimer (1880- 1943), Prague-born Gestalt psychologist
- Michael Wertheimer (psychologist) (born 1927), psychologist, son of Max Wertheimer
- Michael Wertheimer, American cryptologic mathematician
- Pierre Wertheimer, co-founder of Chanel
- Rabbi Samson Wertheimer (1658-1724), German-Hungarian and Austrian rabbi, philanthropist
- Rabbi Solomon Aaron Wertheimer
- Stef Wertheimer (born 1926), Israeli industrialist
- Yair Wertheimer, Israeli tennis player
Update 7/21/15 Because Wertheimer is connected to Oppenheim/Oppenheimer, I'll add a little about that surname because it connects strongly to Wertheimer from this same book.
Oppenheim/Oppenheimer is an Ashkenazic surname taken from the German town of Oppenheim on the Rhein-Hessen. Jews first settled there in the 13th Century. JE and UJ have many biographies from Germany, Austria and England, beginning in the 17th century. That could explain why not all Oppenheimers are related by DNA. LBI has Oppenheim family trees beginning in 1556, 1633, 1676 and 1825.
Resource: Finding Our Fathers-a guidebook to Jewish Genealogy by Dan Rottenberg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertheimer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertheimer
Labels: Dan Rottenberg, Finding Our Fathers, Wertheimer
