COHEN family tree

For complete details, see EMBDEN family from Hamburg ascendants and descendants by Gerd FRIEDT (unpublished). Here I will only give the branches that connect to the LOEB family tree.

All COHEN's are descendents of Aaron.

Issachar COHEN (b. around 1635 Worms, d. 1728 Hamburg) also known as Berend Salomon COHEN, Berend SALOMON, or Baer SALOMON was the son of Juda Seligmann COHEN (rabbinic scholar in Worms), son of Jacob Joseph Cohen of Worms. Issachar was a wealthy and pious Jew.

Issachar had three wives. He first married Bela REE (b. 1643, d. 1696 Hamburg) daughter of Jacob REE and Glueck MEHLREICH. They had no children.

Issachar remarried Reisel SCHIFF (d. 1699) daughter of David SCHIFF from Teblisch.

• Juda Seligmann COHEN (b. 1697 Hamburg, d. 1741 Hamburg) married Chana WERTHEIMER (d. 1738 Hamburg)
  • Josel COHEN (d. 31 May 1719 Vienna)

Finally, Issachar remarried Genendel, sister of Reisel, died 1721 Hamburg. 

• Mayer BEREND Salomon also called Rabbi Abraham Meir ben Isaschar COHEN from Hamburg (b. around 1703-1704 Hamburg, d. 28 June 1758 Hanover) married (around 1740) Tolza WERTHEIMER. Meyer was Rabbi in Hannover until 1755. He is mentioned in the Hannover memorial book.
  • Seligmann COHEN m. Eva EIBENSCHUTZ
  • Eleonora COHEN m. Seligmann GANDERSHEIM
  • Josef COHEN
  • Frederikke COHEN m. Ezekiel LEVY
  • Sprinze COHEN (b. Hamburg???, d. 1781 Copenhagen) married before 1764 Isak POLLAK (b. 1733 Tiktin, Poland, villiage near Bialystock, d. 17 Feb. 1800 Copenhagen) son of Rabbi Abraham ben Joseph TIKTIN, from a famous Rabbinical family. Their children take the name DEHN meaning from Denmark.
    • Rabbi Abraham Isaak DEHN (new last name) (b. 1764, d. 1821 Groningen)
    • Moses Issac TICTIN (1770-1821) married Anna Hannchen DAVID (b. 1778 Hamburg, 1814 Copenhagen) sister-in-law of Abraham Isaac DEHN.
    • Gnendel POLLAK m. Meyer ELKENSTEIN
    • Rebekka POLLAK m. ?? JACOBSON
    • Josef Issac TIKTIN (1793-1830) m. Henriette MELCHIOR (1768-1827)
    Rabbi Abraham remarried Celle MELCHIOR (b. 1765, d. 8 Nov. 1821) 4th daughter of Moses MELCHIOR, and they had two children.
• Juspa Meir COHEN, d. 1739 Hamburg
• Nathan COHEN
• Chawa COHEN, d. 1786 Hamburg, married to Elia OPPENHEIM, d. 1786 Hamburg, son of Menachem Mendel OPPENHEIM
• Fradche COHEN, d. 1728, married 1727 to Isaac WERTHEIM

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