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OPPENHEIMER family
Most of the information on this page comes from a family tree prepared by Samuel DOKOW of Hemsbach in 1900 based in part on the family tree of Issachar ben Löb OPPENHEIMER of Hoffenheim.My direct ancestors are in bold. Also see our ascending family tree.
Vögele Bezalel Löb and Rabbi Isak COHEN
Rabbi Isak (Jizchak) (Yitzhak) (KATZ) (Ha-)COHEN (Jacob Elhanan) (d. 30 May 1624 Prague) son of Rabbi Samson (Simson) COHEN first married Lea LOEW daughter of the Maharal of Prague.
Lea LOEW died childless, and Rabbi Isak (Jizchak) (Yitzhak) (KATZ) (Ha-)COHEN remarried Lea LOEW's sister Vögele (Vaigel) Bezalel Löb (LOEW) (d. 28 Jan. 1629 Prague).
- Chajjim COHEN, president of the Beit Din in Pozha, married to Bella BEZALEL, daughter of Samuel ben Bezalel (Rabbi in Prague, Frankfurt, & Posen)
- Rabbi Shimon LOEW m. Mariana
- Rabbi David SAZERDOT (LOEW) Ha-COHEN m. Matlah
- Rabbi Naftali COHEN (b. Frankfort, d. 1644 or 1649) (Rabbi in Lublin). President of the Beit Din in Lublin. Married Dinah KATZNELLENBOGEN.
- Chawa (Eva) COHEN,
- Rabbi Shimon LOEW (died before 1621) m. Lana
- Slowe m. Jakob Muschullam Salmon THEOMIM-FRANKEL-MIRELS. (Information formerly given here about Moses Ahron THEOMIM FRAENKEL Munk has now been removed since it appears according to the Alisa SHARON's research in the WACHSTEIN book and Beit Haalmin Hajehudi BePrague that is the son of Rabbi Simeon Teomim-Lamal also named Nathan Vaidal or Veidel.)
Chawa married Rabbi (Abraham) Samuel BACHRACH son of Isak BACHRACH
Chawa (Eva) COHEN (b. 1580 Prague, d. and buried 1651 Sofia on the way to Palestine) was an unusual woman with great knowledge. She married Rabbi Abraham Samuel BACHRACH (b. 1575, d. 26 May 1615 Gernsheim) Rabbi in Worms, son of Isak BACHRACH. (Chawa was Abraham's 2nd wife.)
It was a big honor when Abraham Samuel BACHRACH became Rabbi in Worms around 1606 at such an early age. But in 1615 the Judengasse was plundered and the Jews expelled. He found refuge in Gernsheim. He passed away before he was 40 years old and is buried in Alsbach an der Bergstrasse. His grave is still a venerable place.
His widow Chawa returned to Prague and devoted herself to the education of her only son Simson.
- Rabbi (Moses) Samson (Simson) BACHRACH (b. 1607 Pohorelice, Moravia, or Worms according to Louis OPPENHEIMER, d. 19 April 1670 Worms), an eminent scholar (1627 in Brod, Mähren; 1629 Rabbi in Göding, Mähren; 1635 Rabbi in Leipnik; 1643 in Prague; 1650 Rabbi in Worms), m. 1627 to Dobrusch Phöbus (b. UNGARisch-Brod, Moravia, d. 2 March 1662 Worms) , daughter of Isak ben Phobus.
- Sarah BACHRACH married to Liepmann GINZBURG from Prague according to Louis OPPENHEIMER
- Miria GINZBURG (d. 1680 Prague) m. Meir HAZAN
- Hinde BACHRACH, d. 1641 at Prague, m. to Liebermann ben Löb Darschau
- Telzel BACHRACH, d. 1669 at Prague, m. to Moshe Perez SABIL
- Perl BACHRACH (1612-1617 Prague)
Chavas Yoir
The Joir Chayim BACHRACH was known as the Chavas Yoir, Rabbi of Worms after the book of responsa he wrote. The Chavas Yoir was born 1638 in Leipnik, Moravia as Chajim, and the name Jair was added according to Jewish custom after a several sickness. In 1650, he answered the call to become Rabbi in Worms like his father. He died 1 January 1702 in Worms. (See p. 46, vol. IV of Encyclopedia Judaica 22 Volume Set . He was a follower of Shabtai Zvi, the pseudo-Messiah.)
The Chavas Yoir studied under Rabbi Meschullam Eliesar Sussman Brillin and married (1653 Fulda) his daughter Sarah (Dina Sorle) BRILIN. The family Brillin was a well-known family related to the OPPENHEIMERs.
The lectures of the Chavas Yoir in Frankfurt in 1660 were a sensation. Because of his knowlege he was so widely known that his house became a place of pilgrimage.
- Chajjim BACHRACH, b. 1661 at Mainz
- Samuel Sanwel BACHRACH, m. 1670 to Revka GROTWOHL from Koblenz (d. 1687)
- Rabbi Samson (Shimshon) BACHRACH (b. about 1657). Information on this branch from Yael ROZENZWIEG yael_01@hotmail.com based on a document by Shimon ZINNERREICH translated by Hank MISHKOFF.
- Malka BACHRACH (b. about 1680) married Rabbi Zalman SHPITZ or SPITZ, member of the Beit Din in Eisenstadt
- Dobrasch BACHRACH (d. 1736 Worms) married Salomon (Moses) OPPENHEIM-Scheneur
- Chawa BACHRACH (d. 1701 Hemsbach).
- Malca BACHRACH. For information contact Yael ROZENTSWIEG (g-g-g-g-g-g-great-granddaughter) yael_01@hotmail.com
Chawa BACHRACH and Juda Löb OPPENHEIM
According to J. Eric FREEDNER Freedner at sbcglobal.net: "The name OPPENHEIMER is one of the most common family names. Already in the 16th century, long before Jews in Germany (early in the 19th century), when they had to adopt family names, the name OPPENHEIMER had such a good reputation that many Jews who were not related to the OPPENHEIMERs took this name.
"The origin of the family is in the city of OPPENHEIM on the Rhine, between Worms and Mainz. Already in the 13th century, there was a Jewish community. Towards the end of the 15th century in the so-called green book in Worms several OPPENHEIMERs are mentioned.
"In the 16th century one finds OPPENHEIMERs in Frankfurt. The first of this name was LOEW OPPENHEIMER who is supposed to have come from OPPENHEIM." Chawa BACHRACH (d. 5 April 1701 Hemsbach or Laudenbach, buried in Hemsbach) married (Worms) Juda Löb OPPENHEIM of Hemsbach (d. 1701 Hemsbach or Laudenbach).
Descendants of Chawa BACHRACH and Juda Löb OPPENHEIM:
- Rabbi Simon (Samson) OPPENHEIMER, (b. Hemsbach, d. 1 March 1753 Hemsbach, buried in Worms). Rabbi Simon's gravestone is inscribed:
"Here rests Rabbi Simon of Hemsbach, son of Juda OPPENHEIMER, from his mother's side a grandson of the famous Rabbi Jair Chajim. He did good works for the living and the dead. As Mohel he entered boys in the union with Abraham. He supported the promoters of the Tora. His house was a refuge for all oppressed."
Simson was a money-collector, a job that only reliable people could hold. He had four daughters and five sons.- Juda Löb OPPENHEIMER (b. ca. 1720 Hemsbach, d. 1772 Hemsbach). Married Rechle OPPENHEIMER (d. 1811 Hemsbach). Two sons
- Rabbi Zacharias (Issachar) OPPENHEIMER of Hoffenheim (b. 1 Oct. 1715 Hemsbach, d. 25 July 1760 Hoffenheim, buried in the cemetery of Waibstadt) married Klara FREUD (b. 1771, d. 1841)
- Rechle (Rachel) OPPENHEIMER of Kreitzingen (?)
- Wolf OPPENHEIMER from Berwangen
- Gitel OPPENHEIMER married Simon J. L. OPPENHEIMER
- Sarle OPPENHEIMER
- Faygele (Vögele) OPPENHEIMER from Prosel (=Bruchsal?)
- Samuel OPPENHEIMER from Prosel (=Bruchsal?). (Samuel does not appear on certain family trees.)
- Reb Haïm OPPENHEIMER from Michelfeld
- Bunle OPPENHEIMER
- Hewe (Eve) OPPENHEIMER
- Reb Issachar OPPENHEIMER from Michelfeld.
- Löb OPPENHEIMER (son Issachar OPPENHEIMER)
- Modche OPPENHEIMER (son Issachar OPPENHEIMER)
- Lekisch OPPENHEIMER
- Samson OPPENHEIMER from Michelfeld (sons: Mendel OPPENHEIMER , Löb OPPENHEIMER , Herz OPPENHEIMER , Brendel OPPENHEIMER , Keile OPPENHEIMER )
- Lippmann OPPENHEIMER from Michelfeld (children Hanna OPPENHEIMER, Keile OPPENHEIMER, Seligmann OPPENHEIMER, Hajum OPPENHEIMER, Wolf OPPENHEIMER, Löb OPPENHEIMER, Salomon OPPENHEIMER father of Issachar OPPENHEIMER)
- Seligmann OPPENHEIMER
- Reb Haïm OPPENHEIMER from Michelfeld
- Reb Löb OPPENHEIMER (b. 1740, d. 1800) of Hoffenheim.
- Freudche OPPENHEIMER
- Särchen OPPENHEIMER
- Chawa (Eve) OPPENHEIMER
- Jettle OPPENHEIMER
- Reb Issachar OPPENHEIMER of Hoffenheim. (DOKOW's 1900 family tree was based in part of Issachar OPPENHEIMER's 1828/9 Stammbaum.) Also known as Zacharias OPPENHEIMER?
- Leckisch OPPENHEIMER of Mannheim
- Rinle (?) OPPENHEIMER
- Jettle OPPENHEIMER
- Samson OPPENHEIMER of Hoffenheim. Children: Gittel, MAIER Löb
- Gittel OPPENHEIMER
- Sarle OPPENHEIMER married Zacharias OPPENHEIMER of Hemsbach
- Besle OPPENHEIMERmarried Simon OPPENHEIMER of Hemsbach
- Gittel OPPENHEIMERmarried Simon OPPENHEIMER from Hemsbach
- Reb Itzig OPPENHEIMER (b. Hoffenheim, d. 1810)
- Reb HIRSCH OPPENHEIMER (b. 1782 Hoffenheim, d. 1824) married Judit MACHOLL.
- Michael OPPENHEIMER (b. 1805, d. 1867) married Rosalie HEUMANN
- Hirsch OPPENHEIMER (b. 1835)
- Karoline OPPENHEIMER (b. 1837)
- Regine OPPENHEIMER (b. 1840)
- Isaak OPPENHEIMER (b. 1842)
- Sophie OPPENHEIMER (b. 1844)
- Hanna OPPENHEIMER (b. 1846)
- Heinrich OPPENHEIMER (b. 1848)
- Zacharias Julius OPPENHEIMER (b. 1850) m. August MORGENROTH
- Itzig OPPENHEIMER (b. 1812)
- Sarle OPPENHEIMER (b. 1814)
- Israel OPPENHEIMER (b. 1817, d. 1883) m. Karolina REINACH (b. 1817, d. 1898)
- Hermann OPPENHEIMER (b. 1850, d. 1914)
- Elise OPPENHEIMER (d. 1921) m. BLOCH
- Mathilde OPPENHEIMER (b. 1852, d. 1901) m. OPPENHEIMER
- Rosa OPPENHEIMER (b. 1855, d. 1927) m. M. REIS
- Jettchen (Sara) OPPENHEIMER (b. 1855) m. Siegmund REINACH
- Regina OPPENHEIMER (b. 1856 Hoffenheim bei Sinsheim, Baden, d. 1937) m. Emanuel (Halevi) NEU (b. 1852, d. 1900)
- C. NEU
- J. NEU m. Mortiz ROSENBERGER (b. 1874, d. 1943)
- S. NEU m. G.
- J. NEU
- Amalia Martha NEU (b. 1888, d. 1963) m. Simon KELLER (b. 1879, d. 1940)
- Franziska KELLER (b. 1911, d. 1912)
- Emanuel KELLER (b. 1913, d. 1982) m. H. WEISS. Son: Simon KELLER. Lives in Santigo, Chile.
- Julius KELLER (b. 1915, d. 1992) m. R.
- Emilie OPPENHEIMER (b. 1858, d. 1927) m. Aron BAER (b. 1856, d. 1927)
- S. OPPENHEIMER
- Zacharias (Issachar) OPPENHEIEMER
- Caroline (Keile) OPPENHEIMER (b. 1819)
- Simon (Samson) OPPENHEIMER
- Michael OPPENHEIMER (b. 1805, d. 1867) married Rosalie HEUMANN
- Riwke OPPENHEIMER
- Gittel OPPENHEIMER
- Mendel OPPENHEIMER
- Esther OPPENHEIMER
- Reb HIRSCH OPPENHEIMER (b. 1782 Hoffenheim, d. 1824) married Judit MACHOLL.
- Herz OPPENHEIMER. For more information, contact desendant J. Eric FREEDNER Freedner at sbcglobal.net son of Janet M. OPPENHEIMER
- Vogele OPPENHEIMER married Jacob GERST.
- Ernst-Felip GERST, a Jew who converted to Christianity and was rewarded for his administrative talents by the Grand-Duke of Baden, in whose service he entered upon his conversion, who made him "Freiherr von Sensburg" (1815), and, who was an ancestor through several female-links of Prince Claus von Amsberg, the husband of Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. For details contact: David HUGHES RDavidH218 at Aol.com
- Loeb OPPENHEIMER
- Itzig OPPENHEIMER
- Reb Jechiel OPPENHEIMER of Heidelburg.
We believe that Samuel DOKOW obtained information about this branch of the family from a tree written in 1828/9 by a Issachar OPPENHEIMER of Hoffenheim.- Reb Itzig OPPENHEIMER of Heidelberg
- Wolf OPPENHEIMER
- Daniel OPPENHEIMER
- Löb OPPENHEIMER
- Itzig OPPENHEIMER
- Lämle OPPENHEIMER
- Baruch OPPENHEIMER
- Daniel OPPENHEIMER
- Reb Joseph OPPENHEIMER
- Löb OPPENHEIMER
- Reb Itzig OPPENHEIMER of Heidelberg
- Zacharias (Issachar?) OPPENHEIMER (b. 1715 Hemsbach, d. 1760)
- Löb OPPENHEIMER (b. 1740 Hoffenheim or Heidelberg (?), d. 1800) married his first cousin Kahle (Caroline) OPPENHEIMER (b. 1740 Hoffenheim, d. 1 June 1804 Hoffenheim). Head of the Jewish congregation in Hoffenheim.
- Zacharias OPPENHEIMER (b. 1764). Contact Renate McVITTIE Red at McVittie.com for three more generations of descendants.
- Fratel OPPENHEIMER (b. 6 Nov. 1771 Hoffenheim, d. 11 Dec. 1842 Michelfeld) married cousin Zacharias OPPENHEIMER (b. 1773 Michelfeld, d. 1827 Michelfeld)
- Gidel OPPENHEIMER married Moses BEHR (b. Massenbach).
- Hendel BEHR (b. 9 Sept 1787) married (1807) Hayum Lob M. HORKHEIMER (b. Freudental). Hayum Lob HORKHEIMER was a Court Jew. Linda Belle LEVINE has a beautiful portrait of him.
- eldest child
- next child
- Isaac HORKHEIMER. He came to the US in 1844 and settled in Barnesville, Ohio from 1850-1860 where he died. (See the Massenbach BMD registrar from their great-great-granddaughter Linda Belle LEVINE llevine2@aol.com living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Sara BEHR (b. 5 May 1791)
- Reichel BEHR (b. 8 June 1793)
- Gitel BEHR (b. 22 Oct. 1794)
- Dina Sara BEHR (b. 11 Nov. 1796)
- Hendel BEHR (b. 9 Sept 1787) married (1807) Hayum Lob M. HORKHEIMER (b. Freudental). Hayum Lob HORKHEIMER was a Court Jew. Linda Belle LEVINE has a beautiful portrait of him.
- Hajum (Hayum) OPPENHEIMER (b. 1745 Hoffenheim, d. 27 March 1809 Michelfeld, buried Waibstadt plot 1509) married a cousin Brendel OPPENHEIMER (b. 1743, d. 3 August 1819 Michelfeld, buried Waibstadt plot 2070). Hayum was head of the Jewish congregation of Michelfeld. Brendel was the first of the family whose death is registered in the official registry of Badenia.
- Zacharias OPPENHEIMER (b. 1 Oct. 1773 Michelfeld/Baden, d. 21 Feb.1827 Michelfeld) married cousin Fratel OPPENHEIMER (b. 1771 Hoffenheim, d. 1842 Michelfeld). Zacharias founded the cloth factory in Michelfeld. By a constitutional edict became a town citizen, thereby gaining all the civil rights, an exception among Jews. By 1890 they had over 550 children, grandchildren, and a few great grandchildren. Contact: David E. OPPENHEIMER, 2707 N. Ocean Bd., Boca Raton, FL 33431.
- four daughters
- Löb OPPENHEIMER (b. 1740 Hoffenheim or Heidelberg (?), d. 1800) married his first cousin Kahle (Caroline) OPPENHEIMER (b. 1740 Hoffenheim, d. 1 June 1804 Hoffenheim). Head of the Jewish congregation in Hoffenheim.
- Moses LOEW OPPENHEIM (???). Contact descendant: Jean-Louis HELBRONNER jlhelbro@gmail.com, member of GenAmi, International Association of Jewish Genealogy in Paris.
Thanks to Mark Steven SCHREINER, Renate McVITTIE Red at McVittie.com, Yael ROZENZWIEG yael_01@hotmail.com, J. Eric FREEDNER Freedner at sbcglobal.net for information on this branch of the family tree.
Daniel E. LOEB, eMail: publisher@pjvoice.com