Günzburg to Coburg


Lineage Sources
(for connecting to previous generation below)
Simon GÜNZBURG
(c. 1505, Günzburg - 1585, Burgau)
Hindle bat Isaac
  • Pfersee Memorbuch (Shimon son of Eliezer Ulma, from Günzburg, died 1585 and buried in Burgau)
  • Tzemach David (Shimon Günzburg died in 1585/6 at around 80 years old)
(daughter of Abraham)
Eliezer "Lazarus" ULMA
(c. 1475, Ulm - c. 1545)
  • Bürgerbuch of Ulm (1498: Lazarus, son-in-law of Abraham)1
Abraham
(c. 1440, Ulm)
  • Report of Menachem Oldendorf on travels from Frankfurt to Italy, 1472 (friend "Abraham, Sohn Seligmanns")2
Seligmann
(c. 1400 Coburg - c. 1455, Ulm)
Jentlin
  • 1435 Court Case between Rabbis Seligmann and Simle (Simle must repent before graves of Seligmann's parents, Abraham and Mina)
Abraham
(c. 1375, Coburg - Ulm)
Mina
( - 1435, Ulm)



Research Notes
1. Shimon's birth can be estimated to be 1505 based on the Memorbuch of Pfersee (which provides his date of death as the 9 Shevat [5]345 (9 January 1585)) and Tzemach David (which states that he died close to 80 years old in [5]346 (1585/6)). Therefore, assuming his father was about 25 years old when his son was born, we would expect Eliezer to be born around 1480 or so and living in Ulm (the Memorbuch lists him as Eliezer Ulma). Furthermore, since the Jews of Ulm were expelled in 1499, we would expect to find Lazarus in the Ulm records just before then.

In the Bürgerbuch (book of citizens) of Ulm, in 1498, we find: "Laßerus Jud Aberhams tohterman, [der hat] das flaischschnyder ampt der Judigkait" (Laßerus, son-in-law of Jew Aberham, having the butchery office of the Jewish community)

Some of other entries are:
1493 Anshallmen Aberhams von Heilbronn sun (Anshallmen, son of Aberham from Heilbronn)
1493 Mossin Aberhams von Heilbronn thochterman (Mossin, son-in-law of Aberham from Heilbronn)
1495 Seligman Jud Aberhams sun (Seligman, son of Jew Aberham)

We see that there is a distinction between a Jud Aberham (mentioned in the Laßerus and Seligman entries) and Aberham von Heilbronn (in the Ashallmen and Mossin entries).
The former is likely Abraham, son of Seligmann, son of Abraham and Mina von Coburg (a prominent family in Ulm). Therefore, we can presume that this is the family connected with Lazarus, father of Simon Günzburg.

A theorized tree (with very rough, estimated dates) is as follows:
Abraham von Coburg = Mina (c. 1375 - 1435)
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Seligmann (c. 1410 - c. 1455) [rabbi of Ulm starting in 1430s]
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Abraham (c. 1445)
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(daughter) = Lazarus (c. 1475 - c. 1545)
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Simon Günzburg (c. 1505 - c. 1585) [leader of Swabian Jewry]

Scholl Christian. “Die Judengemeinde Der Reichsstadt Ulm Im Späten Mittelalter : Innerjüdische Verhältnisse Und Christlich-Jüdische Beziehungen in Süddeutschen Zusammenhängen.” Universität Trier Hahnsche 2012. (p. 421)


2. "We are better informed about the emigration of Moses, Abraham and Lazarus, Seligmann's sons, who, like their father, emigrated to Italy.[327] Lazarus is attested in 1457 under the name Lazarus, son of the magistri Bonaventure tunc iudei de Ulmo, in Belluno.[328] Abraham was mentioned in the last quarter of the 15th century by a Jew named Menachem Oldendorf, who emigrated to Italy from Frankfurt via Regensburg and worked as a scribe in Italy.[329] Moses finally stayed in Ulm around 1450 before he probably lived in Treviso in 1453 and in Mestre in 1474.[330] The close relations between Ulm and Northern Italy are underlined by the fact that in all probability Moses, but in any case a son of Seligmann, copied [332] in Treviso in 1453 a collection of Minhagim [331] made in Ulm around 1450, which subsequently copied several times in northern Italy and translated into Yiddish.[333] In addition to this Minhagim collection, a Siddur begun in Ulm in 1450 reached Treviso, where it was completed in 1453.[334]"

[327] Cf. on Seligmann, who lived in Italy for several years before moving to Ulm in 1431, Chapter E 2.1.3, pp. 229-245.

[328] Cf. MÖSCHTER, Jews, p. 120 and 304.

[329] Menachem Oldendorf emigrated in 1472 together with his father from Frankfurt to Regensburg and two years later from there to Italy, cf. GJ 3,1, Art. Frankfurt am Main, p. 361. In one of his writings he counted “Abraham, Sohn Seligmanns”, on his friends, cf. HAVERKAMP (ed.), reports, p. 151.

[330] Cf. ibid. and chapter D 4.2, p. 169. 331 Cf. on the type of source of the Minhagim books KEIL, Gemeinde, p. 30 f.

Scholl “Die Judengemeinde Der Reichsstadt Ulm..." p. 158-159