The
descendants of Raphael Vorms from Bionville (Moselle) - Part two
: two generations
LOUIS
VORMS AND GUY WORMS, publish the descendant list
of the older son of Raphael Worms, Hayman, over five generations.
They know further descendants, but the limitation results from our
rule not de publish data about living persons. A number of well-known
personalities who could have been listed is nevertheless given.
Two members of the list have required in-depth research to be identified;
the authors reveal the details of their research
About
the family name Haas (Guebwiller – Belfort).
DENIS
INGOLD makes a major discovery
about the origin of the Christian family Haas whose descendants
include a French representative Emile Keller and the Paris archbishop
Cardinal Maurice Feltin. Their common forefather Leopold Haas was
a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Guebwiller around 1617, at
age 22. In his 1963 publication about the Haas-Mayer family, François
Klée had placed Leopold’s birthplace near Ottmarsheim.
Ingold discovers that Klée has misread the Latin citation
in Leopold’s death record and elaborates on a recently discovered
document by a remote descendant. The birthplace is in fact Jungholz,
where a Jewish Haas has been documented at the same period. Ingold
evaluates the pros and cons of two possibilities : Leopold adopting
the Christian name Haas after his baptism or David/Leopold carrying
over his Jewish nickname Haas/zum Hasen into his Christian life.
The author opts for the latter possibility.
Trying to find my Dilsheimer family
PATRICIA
HAAS has started her genealogy prompted by her
grandchildren’s birth. Her paternal grandmother Renée
was born in Versailles in 1881 from Samuel Schorestène and
Sophie Dilsheimer. The ancestors of Samuel Schorestène/Schornstein
come from Alsace and are well documented; they originate in a rabbi/cantor
family. Sophie Dilsheimer’s origin is harder to find, but
a stepwise approach through Internet and visits to Paris cemeteries,
including proving one is the legal owner by descendency of the tomb
and thus entitled to access the corresponding file, finally knacks
the nut; Sophie comes from Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. The author neither
speaks nor reads German but by joining Cercle de Généalogie
Juive receives the needed assistance to trace her Dilsheimer ancestors
back to one born around 1720..
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MISCELLANEOUS
Our
members have answered the Questionnaire
Late
2007, we issued a questionnaire to all our members in order to get
a true picture of all of them. Some 35 percent replied early 2008.
The answers have been exploited according to strict professional
rules by a team of five Board members under the leadership of President
JOËLLE ALLOUCHE-BENAYOUN.
The statistical results are published in this paper and cover all
aspects of the relationship each member can have with the society:
the Revue, the monthly lectures, the Sigs, the library, the website,
the sections in the French provinces, etc. They are related to the
sociological analysis of the constituency, as it appears from the
answers to the first sets of questions. y.
From
Senior to Schneerso(h)n
ELIANE
ROOS SCHUHL elaborates on the Jewish names deriving
from the Latin root senior, meaning the older, the lord. According
to the pronunciation (Ashkenazi or Sephardic) the variations are
many. The author selects examples from all periods and all regions
in the world, thus letting us know many famous bearers of the name.
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