KAUFMAN (Кауфман)
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Eva
(Alperovich) Kaufman
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- Abraham Moses "Morris" KAUFMAN married Minia RABUNSKY, daughter of Bendet and Feiga, lived in Vileika county, and had children: Joel (1865), Isaac (1871), Bendet (1872), Feiga (1876), Menashe (1880), and Benjamin (1881). With a second wife, Sheina Chana "Anna" KUKELSTEIN (1842) from Kurenets, daughter of Zavil David and Dvosia, he had children: Zavil David (1882) and Sarah Zelde (1887). Morris immigrated to the United States around 1892 followed by Anna (with children Feige, Zavil, and Sarah) in 1895. Morris and Anna both died in Manhattan, New York, in 1924.
- Joel "Louis" KAUFMAN married Gita Mina "Gertrude Minnie" NOVOSHOLSKY, daughter of Joseph, in 1889 and had a son, Reuben (1890). Louis immigrated to the United States in 1891 and settled in Worcester, Massachusetts, followed by Gertrude and Reuben in 1893. Louis and Gertrude then had more children: Esther (1894), Ida (1896), Miriam (1898), Benjamin Leib (1900), and Eva (1901). Louis died in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1945.
- Reuben KAUFMAN married Lillian PRIGOFF and had children: Sarah Miriam (1922) and Edward Joseph (1924). Reuben died in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1979.
- Sarah Miriam KAUFMAN died in 2015.
- Edward Joseph KAUFMAN died in 1991.
- Esther KAUFMAN married Isaac Hertzl BLOCH. She died in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1930.
- Ida KAUFMAN died in 1922.
- Miriam KAUFMAN married Irving SHERMAN. She died in Utica, New York, in 1970.
- Benjamin Leib KAUFMAN married Esther "Essie" H. SELIGMAN and had children: Elain/Gloria (1930) and Ellida (1932). He died in Savyon, Israel, in 1987.
- Elain/Gloria KAUFMAN died in 2005.
- Ellida KAUFMAN married Zvi GEYRA. Zvi died in 2008, followed by Ellida in 2017.
- Eva KAUFMAN married Saul ROBINSON and had children: Anne Ida (1925), Ruth (1928), and Berta Sylvia (1930). She died in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, in 1974.
- Isaac KAUFMAN, was called up for the draft in Kurenets in 1892, married Henie Roiza "Anna Rose" ZAVODNICK, daughter of Pesach, and had children: Joseph Pesach (1891), Mina (1894), and Aron (1898). Isaac died in New Haven in 1922 followed by Anna Rose in 1935.
- Joseph Pesach "Joseph Percy" Kaufman married Anna KAPLAN and had children: Ida M. (1912), Burton David (1914), Minnie Joan (1915), Soloman (1917), Neal Paul (1920), and Benjamin (1922). He died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941.
- Burton David KAUFMAN died in New York in 1995.
- Minnie Joan KAUFMAN died in 1972.
- Soloman KAUFMAN died in 1979.
- Neal Paul "Nathan" KAUFMAN died in 1966.
- Benjamin KAUFMAN died in 1993.
- Mina "Minnie" KAUFMAN married Coleman GORENBERG and had children: Charlotte/Selma (1914) and Theresa (1917). She died in 1919.
- Aron "Harry D." KAUFMAN married Jennie BLOCK and had children, including: Ruth (1921), Minerva (1921), and Herbert Maurice (1929). He died in West Haven, Connecticut, in 1984 followed by Jennie in 1995.
- Ruth KAUFMAN married WEINER and died in Branford, Connecticut, in 2004.
- Minerva KAUFMAN married Neal Paul KINNARD and died in Hamden, Connecticut, in 2004.
- Herbert Maurice KAUFMAN died in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2005.
- Bendet "Barnet" KAUFMAN married Tziril "Sarah" KAUFMAN, daughter of Jacob and Bessie nee SHNITMAN, and had children: Minnie Sarah (1894) and George (1895) in Nebraska; Gertrude (1898) in Massachusetts; Dinah N. (1900), Eva (1901), Lena (1905), and Samuel (1911) in Connecticut. He died in Connecticut in 1923.
- Minnie Sarah KAUFMAN married Morris Lawrence PERLOTH, son of Jacob and Dora nee GOLDENHEIM, and had children: Barbara Ruth (1923), George (1926), Sherman (1928), and Donald L. (1931). Morris died in New Haven in 1966 followed by Minnie in 1982.
- George KAUFMAN married
Edith GINSBERG and had children,
including: Beatrice Reva (1928) and Selma Ada (1930). He died in 1970.
- Beatrice Reva KAUFMAN died in Connecticut in 1968.
- Selma Ada KAUFMAN died in New York in 2016.
- Gertrude KAUFMAN married Herman LEVINE and had children, including: Robert George (1929) and Marcia R. (1930). She died in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1981.
- Dinah N. KAUFMAN married Abraham B. PERLOTH, son of Jacob and Dora nee GOLDENHEIM, and had children: Bernice (1923) and Jordan L. (1933). She died in Meriden, Connecticut in 1970.
- Eva KAUFMAN married Joseph MORRIS and died in New Haven in 1984.
- Lena KAUFMAN remained single and died in New Haven in 1997.
- Samuel KAUFMAN remained single and died in New Haven in 1995.
- Menashe "Samuel" KAUFMAN married Anny WEISBERG, daughter of S. and Mol. nee KATZ, in Manhattan in 1903. After Anny died in New York in 1904, Samuel moved to Massachusetts. He married Sarah NOVOSHOLSKY, daughter of Wolf and Gutte nee TAISHOV (and niece of the above Getrude Minnie KAUFMAN nee NOVOSHOLSKY), in Worcester in 1907 and had children: Hyman (1907), Bernard (1909), Joseph (1911), Reuben Leon (1912), Gertrude (1914), Max (1917), David (1919), and Minnie (1924). He died in 1953.
- Hyman KAUFMAN married Sarah SHULMAN in 1948 and had children, including: Joel David (1952). He died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1979.
- Joel David KAUFMAN died in Derby, Connecticut, in 2009.
- Bernard KAUFMAN married Claire SINGER and died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1973.
- Joseph KAUFMAN died as an infant in Worcester in 1911.
- Reuben Leon KAUFMAN died in Boca Raton, Florida, in 2004.
- Gertrude KAUFMAN died in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1992.
- Max KAUFMAN married Esther POZEMSKY in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940. He died in 2012.
- David KAUFMAN died in Seaford, New York, in 2010.
- Minnie KAUFMAN married William LEVY and died in Mohegan Lake, New York, in 2000.
- Benjamin KAUFMAN married Rose Leah SILVERSTEIN from Brest, daughter of Morris and Paya nee ROTNOVSKY (later married Samuel GROOSHKIN), and had children: Minna (1908), Samuel David (1910), Ann (1911), Eva (1913), Joseph (1914), stillborn (1915), Henry Sol (1916), and Sara (1918). He died in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1919.
- Minna KAUFMAN married Herman COTTON and had children, including: Bernice "Bunny" (1928). She died in Alameda in 1986.
- Samuel David KAUFMAN married Pearl SHMUCKLER in the Bronx, New York, in 1936. He died in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1992.
- Ann KAUFMAN died in Sydney, Australia, in 1991.
- Joseph KAUFMAN married Violet PRIMACK and died in California in 1967.
- Henry Sol KAUFMAN died in Huntington Beach, California, in 2005.
- Sara KAUFMAN married Stanley Charles POLLOCK and had children, including: Linda Joy (1943).
- Zavil David “Joseph” KAUFMAN married Rebecca “Beckie” YAMIN in Brooklyn in 1907 and had children: Isidore (1908), Lillian Gloria (1910), and Helen (1914). Becky died in New York in 1962 followed by Joseph in 1963.
- Isidore KAUFMAN died in 1976.
- Lillian Gloria KAUFMAN married Barney PODELL in Brooklyn in 1940 and died in Waltham, Massachusetts in 2000.
- Helen KAUFMAN married Rabbi Meyer FINKELSTEIN. Meyer died in 1975 followed by Helen in Suffolk county, Massachusetts, in 2004.
- Sarah Zelde KAUFMAN married Israel HOROWITZ in Brooklyn in 1912 and had children: Evelyn (1914), Helen Dorothy (1918), and Eugene (1923). Israel died in 1947 followed by Sarah in 1964.
- Helen Dorothy HOROWITZ married Leonard ROSENBERG and died in New Jersey in 2000.
- Eugene HOROWITZ married Gertrude GORFINE and died in Pennsylvania in 1989.
- Jankel "Jacob" KAUFMAN lived in Vileika county, married Bascha Rifka "Bessie" SHNITMAN, daughter of Shneur Eliezer, and had children: Shimon, Ziril (1873), Beila (1875), Sarah (1875), Zipe (1879), Abraham David (1886), Desche (1888), and Joseph (1891). He immigrated to the United States in about 1902 and settled in New Haven, Connecticut, where he made a living as a teacher and umbrella repairer. Jacob died in New Haven in 1923 followed by Bessie in 1926.
- Ziril "Sarah" KAUFMAN married Bendet "Barnet" KAUFMAN, son of Abraham Moses "Morris" and Minia nee RABUNSKY, and had children: Minnie Sarah (1894) and George (1895) in Nebraska; Gertrude (1898) in Massachusetts; Dinah N. (1900), Eva (1901), Lena (1906), and Samuel (1912) in Connecticut. She died in Connecticut in 1947.
- Beila "Rebecca"KAUFMAN died in 1971.
- Sarah KAUFMAN married Hersch "Harris" KASDEN, immigrated to the U.S. in 1893, lived in New Haven, and had children: Eva (1893), Minnie (1895), George (1897), and Samuel S. (1905). The family made a living in the scrap metal business. Harris died in New Haven in 1955 followed by Sarah in 1956.
- Zipe "Jenni" KAUFMAN married Benzion "Benjamin" LIPKOWITZ and had children, including: Sarah Leila (1903), Harold Sherwin (1906), and Eva (1913). She died in New Haven in 1963.
- Abraham David KAUFMAN immigrated to the United States in 1904 and served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Following the war, he married Anna Deborah HARTZMAN, had children: Betty (1928) and Rhoda (1932). He worked as an automobile mechanic. Abraham died in New Haven in 1975 followed by Anna in 1990.
- Betty KAUFMAN married Edward R. WINNICK. Betty died in 2015 followed by Edward in 2017.
- Rhoda KAUFMAN married Bernard E. GORENBERG. Bernard died in
New Haven in 1993 followed by Rhoda in 2019.
- Desche "Dora" KAUFMAN married Jacob FREEDMAN, son of Moses, and had children, including: Morris (1906), Samuel (1908), Pearl (1912), and Evelyn (1916). She died in New Haven in 1959.
- Joseph KAUFMAN married Mabel GOODMAN and had children: Burton Marvin (1922) and Jordan William (1928). He died in New Haven in 1942.
- Burton Marvin KAUFMAN married Nina ROHINSKY, lived in New Haven, and died in 2016.
- Jordan William KAUFMAN died in Branford, Connecticut, in 1997.
- Sarah KAUFMAN married Abraham SELTZER, son of Isaac and Mary nee BERGER, around 1873 and had children: Zipe (1872), Kaila (1874), Ida (1879), David (1881), Meyer Charles (1882), Judel "Ike" (1884), and Joseph (1888). Zipe and Kaila immigrated to the United States in 1890, followed by Abraham in 1891, and Sarah, David, Meyer, Judel, and Joseph in 1895. Abraham died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1922, followed by Sarah in 1930.
- David
KAUFMAN lived in Vileika county before moving in about 1885 to Rakachevo Pole,
a village near Minsk, where he leased a
house and about 160 acres of land, including an apple orchard
and
apiary. He married Gita MILENKY
from Ivenets,
daughter
of Jevna and Itka nee ROTHSTEIN,
and had children:
Josel (1887), Jacob (1890), Sonya (1892), Chana (1896), and Abram
(1898). By 1910, David was a tenant of an apple orchard in Antonovka,
a formerly separate area of Minsk city in which his father-in-law Jevna
owned a home. David died in 1921 (presumably in Staroe Selo). By
1923, Gita was
living in Petrograd (along with her children Jacob, Sonya, and Abram),
where she died in 1939 (then Leningrad).
- Josel "Joseph" KAUFMAN participated in a street demonstation as a student during the 1905 Russian Revolution. After Cossacks attacked the demonstrators with machine guns and fearing that the Russian Secret Police were after him, Joseph fled home and, shortly thereafter, immigrated to the United States in 1906.[5] He resided in Cleveland, Ohio, working first as a chemist and stage carpenter and, then, as a traveling salesman. In 1917, he married Sylvia BENEDICT, daughter of Edward Andrew and Amelia nee EMRICH, and had children: Evelyn Barbara (1918) and Edward Benedict (1921). Joseph died in Cleveland in 1964.
- Evelyn Barbara KAUFMAN married Bernard Rudolph COHEN, son of Louis and Lillian nee STEINSBERG, in Cleveland in 1941. She died in Beachwood, Ohio, in 1998.
- Edward Benedict KAUFMAN married Fae Leah ORNSTEIN, daughter of Benzion and Serafina nee ROSENSTOCK, in Cleveland in 1951. Initially a podiatrist, he later was an artist and owned a picture framing shop. He died in Cleveland in 1986.
- Sonya "Sofia" KAUFMAN married Israel SHNITMAN, son of Moses, and lived in Leningrad, where she remained throughout the Siege [6]. Israel died in 1942 followed by Sonya in 1965. They had no children.
- Jacob KAUFMAN lived with (and likely married) Elizabeta WAX nee KRELBAUM, previously married to Alexander WAX and daughter of Josif and Tema. Jakob fought with the Bolsheviks in the Kronstadt uprising during the February Revolution of 1917. He then lived in Petrograd with Elizabeta, who took care of him while he recovered from typhus. Around 1919, Jakob and Elizabeta moved to and bought a house in Tolmachyovo near Luga (a site of major fighting during the Russian Civil War in the defense of Petrograd). Jakob returned to Leningrad around 1924 and lived with his brother Abrasha's family. A couple years later, he moved to Akhaltsikhe along the southern border of the Soviet Union (modern day Georgia), where he was appointed as a border guard. Elizabeta lived with him there and then in the nearby spa town of Abastumani, where they bought a house.[8] Elizabeta died around 1940. In 1942, Jakob was posted in Krasnodar (where many refugees fled during the war) and was still there as of May 1945. Throughout this time during the war, Jakob was a lieutenant in the quartermaster service of the Red Army. He died sometime after 1954 and likely did not have any children.
- Chana "Anna" KAUFMAN married Leyb CEPELEWICZ "Louis CHEPLOWITZ", son of Pinchas and Basia nee SWERDLINE, in Minsk in 1920 and had a son, Szija David "Sidney" (1921), in Warsaw, Poland. The family immigrated first to Montreal, Canada, and then to Akron, Ohio, in 1923, where they had a daughter, Evelyn (1923). Anna died in Akron in 1983.
- Abram "Abrasha" KAUFMAN married Lidia WAX, daughter of Alexander and Elizabeta nee KRELBAUM, and lived in Leningrad[7] working primarily as an economist. They had one child, Dalila (1923). Abram died in 1967 followed by Lydia in 1986.
- Dalila KAUFMAN married Vladimir "Volodya" KAZAKOV, who died in the 1960s. Dalila then married Lev BALONOV (1917). A graduate of the Second Leningrad Medical Institute, she worked as a psychiatrist in Petrozavodsk from 1946-1949. During this time, she treated many patients, including Philip Grigorevich Semenov, who famously claimed to be Tsarevich Alexei Romanov, son of the former Tsar Nicholas II. Lev died in 1983 followed by Dalila in 2012. She had no children.
- Zipe "Celia" KAUFMAN married Wolf SHAPIRO, son of Jacob, in Manhattan in 1889 and had children: Jacob (1889), Joseph (1890), Sarah (1891), Max (1894), Gussie (1898), and Eva (1903). She died in Woodridge, New York, in 1933.
- Esther KAUFMAN married Elias "Alex" RUBIN (1864), son of Hersch and Rebecca (likely nee ALPEROVICH), a fruit merchant, and immigrated to the United States in about 1890. They had children: Katie (1890), Joseph (1891), David Bernard (1895), Sarah (1898), and Hyman (1903). Esther died in Brooklyn in 1949.
- Sheine KAUFMAN is possibly Shprintza, who married Zalman
NALIBOTZKY (1866), son of Jankel, and lived in the village of Kachino
in Staroselskaya volost (the same volost as David Kaufman, who lived
in the neighboring village of Staroe Selo).
- Mina KAUFMAN married ALPEROVICH, lived in Vileika, and had children: Rifka, Joseph, Zili, and Berta.
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Joel "Louis" Kaufman
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Abraham Moses "Morris" Kaufman
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Bendet
Kaufman
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Menashe "Samuel"
Kaufman
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Zavil David "Joseph"
Kaufman
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Benjamin
Kaufman
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Jacob
Kaufman
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Jenni
(Kaufman) Lipkowitz
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Sarah
(Kaufman) Kasden
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Sarah
(Kaufman) Kaufman
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Joseph Kaufman
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Dora
(Kaufman) Freedman
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Abraham David
Kaufman
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Sarah (Kaufman) Seltzer
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Sonya
(Kaufman) Shnitman
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Jakob Kaufman
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Joseph
Kaufman
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Abrasha Kaufman
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Anna
(Kaufman) Cheplowitz
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Mina
(Kaufman) Alperovich
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Celia
(Kaufman) Shapiro
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Esther
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Research Notes
1. Detailed analysis of the family origins theory.
2. Information from typed genealogy reports of Rabbi Benjamin L. Kaufman of Savyon, Israel, great grandson of Josel, which describe Josel's business and list the names of his parents.
3. Josel's wife Chava's maiden name of Alperovich is assessed with medium confidence. Starting with the 1850 Kurenets revision list, we have that Josel Davidovich Keifman/Kaufman is married to Chava Matisova, 25 years old. Thus, in the prior revision list (1834), Chava should appear as an approximately 9 year old daughter of a man named Matis (short for Matisyahu), a relatively uncommon name in the region. Sure enough, in the 1834 revision list of Kurenets, we find a Matis Joselevich Alperovich, 34 years old, with a wife, a son, and three daughters, including an 8 year old Chava. Without any other known candidates in the region that fit the above criteria, this family and associated surname are taken as the most likely fit for Chava Matisova, who later married Josel Davidovich Kaufman.
4. Josel's son Jankel had a son Abram David born November 29, 1886 (according to his declaration of intention) and a son Joseph born in 1891 (surely named after the (by then) deceased father). Therefore, we can assume that the Josel was not deceased on November 29, 1886, otherwise Abraham David would have been named Joseph (this provides a lower bound). Josel's other son David had a first born son named Josel born December 17, 1887 (according to his decalaration of intention). Therefore, the elder Josel was deceased by then and this provides an upper bound. Thus, Josel must have died between November 29, 1886 and December 17, 1887 - so, most likely, he died in 1887.
Eva, daughter of Louis (son of Josel and Eva), was born on December 1, 1901, providing an upper bound for Eva's death. Bendet (son of Josel and Eva) had a daughter Dina in 1900 and Eva in 1901. According to the 1900 census from June 8, 1900, Dina was 2 months old and born in March 1900. Due to the proximity to her birth, this is probably quite reliable. Therefore, this provides a lower bound for Eva's death. Her sister was born November 16, 1901, acoording to her gravestone, providing a refined upper bound. So Eva (the elder) died between March 1900 and November 16, 1901.
5. Joseph's immigration in 1906 is confirmed by his manifest document. The story leading up to it is according to anecdotal information.
6. Wartime Leningrad letters between (1) Abrasha and his wife and daughter and (2) between Sonya and her brother Abrasha's family
7. Ильин, Арлен М. Призвание Математика (Воспоминания). Издательство Московского университета, 2016.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Yuri Dorn and Maxim Mill of the Jewish Heritage Research Group in Belarus and Jelena Orlova for their help in uncovering the history of this family.