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KAUFMANN

Feitel KAUFMANN (Lazarus) Zerle ( -1772) (Löb)	Mindel (1758-1828) Mordche OPPENHEIMER (1748-1819) (Joseph {Löw})	Joseph, Simon, Täubche
	Hanne ( -1806) Mendel BREIDENBACH (1765-1846) (Marx & Madel)	Mortchen (1800), Lazarus (1802), Ester
	Isaak (1784) Täubche OPPENHEIMER (Mordche {Joseph} & Mindel {Feitel})	Joseph (1801), Löser (1805), Ester (1806)
	Zerline (1784-1853)	Sara (1821), Samuel (1822)

Feitel KAUFMANN, son of Lazarus,¹ married Zerle, daughter of Löb from Birkenau,² lived in Rimbach, and had children: Mindel (1758). After Zerle died in 1772, Feitel likely married again and had children: Hanne, and Isaak (1784).

Mindel KAUFMANN married Mordche OPPENHEIMER from Schriesheim, son of Joseph, in Rimbach on 5 August 1778 and had children: Joseph, Simon, and Täubche. Mordche died in 1819 followed by Mindel in 1828.
Hanne KAUFMANN married Mendel BREIDENBACH, son of Marx and Madle, and had children: Mortchen (1800), Lazarus (1802), and Ester. After Hanne died in 1806, Mendel married Gitel and had at least two more children: Madel (1809) and Jette (1811). Gitel died in 1837 followed by Mendel in 1846.
Isaak KAUFMANN first married Täubche "Daub" OPPENHEIMER from Schriesheim, daughter of the above Mordche and Mindel, and had three children: Joseph (1801), Löser (1805), and Ester (1806). He later married Zerline (1784) and had two more children: Sara (1821) and Samuel (1822). Zerline died in Rimbach in 1853.

Joseph KAUFMANN married Babette nee OBENDORF, daughter of Löser, in Rimbach in 1839 and had one daughter, Daub (1839). After Babette died that same year, he married Sara nee FRIEDBERGER from Neidenstein and had five more children: Zerle (1841), Hannchen (1843), Isaak (1846), Babette (1848), and Ferdinand (1848). Joseph died in 1876.

Zerle KAUFMANN died in Rimbach in 1916.
Hannchen KAUFMANN died in Rimbach in 1913.
Ferdinand KAUFMANN died in Rimbach in 1912.

Löser KAUFMANN married Guetel BORN from Wallenberg and had six children: [unknown] (1837), Feidel (1838), Samuel (1840), Daub (1842), Hannchen (1845), and Isaak (1849). He died in 1873.

Isaak KAUFMANN married Friederike (Rebekka) SINN from Neckar-Bischofsheim in 1875 and had five children: Lina (1875), Louis (1876), Moritz (1878), Samuel (1880), and Jakob (1882).

Moritz KAUFMANN married Selma DREYFUSS from Nonnenweier and had four children: Sophie (1909), Erna (1911), Ernst Ludwig (1913), and Heinz (1920). He immigrated to Avigdor, Argentina, in 1937.

Sophie KAUFMANN immigrated to Avigdor, Argentina, in 1937.
Ernst Ludwig KAUFMANN immigrated to Avigdor, Argentina, in 1936.
Heinz KAUFMANN immigrated to Avigdor, Argentina, in 1937.

Ester KAUFMANN died in 1865.
Sara KAUFMANN died in Rimbach in 1848.
Samuel KAUFMANN married Jette DAVID from Reichelsheim in 1866 and had three children: Thekla (1867), Recha (1868), and Helena (1869). After Jette died in 1873, he married Dina nee LEHMANN from Lengfeld in 1874 and had two children: Jeanette (1874) and Ludwig (1878). Samuel died in 1899.

Ludwig KAUFMANN married Frieda MANN from Landau and had two children: Elisabeth Gertrud (1908) and Herta Beate (1912). He immigrated to Chicago, Illinois, in 1938.

Research Notes

1. Dr. Hermann Brunn, Die Oppenheimer in Schriesheim [The Oppenheimers in Schriesheim] (Schriesheim, Germany: 1977), p. 11; Manuscript, (online)

Mordche Joseph hatte erst nach seinem jüngeren Bruder den Schritt zum Viehhandel gewagt, vielleicht sogar erst auf Betreiben seines Schwiegervaters. Mordche heiratete nämlich am 5. August 1778 Mindel, die Tochter des Feidel Lazarus in Rimbach, der auf Ochsenhandel spezialisiert war.

* Im Ratsprotokoll vom 5.8.1778 (SAS B 263a, p. 290) heißt es im Zusammenhang mit der Hausübergabe: "... urkundlich nicht allein die Mutter, sondern auch anstatt des abwesenden und Hochzeit haltenden Sohns dessen Schwiegervater Jud Veitel Lazarus von Rimbach sich eigenhändig unterschrieben haben."

Mordche Joseph only ventured into the cattle trade after his younger brother, perhaps even at the instigation of his father-in-law. On August 5, 1778, Mordche married Mindel, the daughter of Feidel Lazarus in Rimbach, who specialized in ox trading.

* In the minutes of the council dated August 5, 1778 (SAS B 263a, p. 290) in connection with the handover of the house: "... not only the mother in a document, but also the father-in-law Jud Veitel Lazarus von instead of the absent and wedding son Rimbach signed himself. "

2. A gravestone in the Birkenau Jewish Cemetery reads:
צערלי אשת כ׳ פייטל רעמבאך, מ׳ צערלי בת כ׳ ליב מבעדיום(?), נפטר ביו׳ ו׳ כ״ז ט(?) תקל״ב
(Zerle, wife of Feitel [of] Rimbach, daughter of Leib of Birkenau?, died 27 Tevet [5]532 [3 January 1772])

Note: Dr. Hermann Brunn in Die Oppenheimer in Schriesheim (p. 12), infers instead that a different Zerle is the wife of Feitel of Rimbach.

Seine Witwe Mindel nahm ihre Mutter aus Rimbach zu sich, die hier am 28. Februar 1824 verstarb.*
* So in Berichterprotokoll 1824 (SAS B 246, p. 113). Laut Standesregister (GLA 390, 2954) starb sie am 23.2.1824 als "Zärle Veitel, des in Rimbach verstorbenen Handelsjuden Oscher Veitel hinterlassene Ehefrau, alt 88 Jahre".
His [Mordche Joseph Oppenheimer's] widow Mindel took in her mother from Rimbach, who died here on February 28, 1824. *
* As in Report 1824 (SAS B 246, p. 113). According to the registry (GLA 390, 2954), she died on February 23, 1824 as "Zärle Veitel, the wife of Oscher Veitel, a trade Jew who died in Rimbach, aged 88 years".

It seems unlikely that this is the same family, since 1824 is after the surname adoptions, and Feitel had taken the name Kaufmann. It appears that Veitel here is the surname, with Zärle's husband's first name being Oscher (and thus, an entirely different family). It will be necessary to look at the first reference (Berichterprotokoll 1824 - SAS B 246, p. 113) to see if it explicitly describes this Zärle as Mindel Oppenheimer's mother or whether this was just an inference by Dr Brunn.