Akiva ben (Harav) Moshe GINS Family Tree

Akiva ben (Harav) Moshe GINS (b. 8 Nov. 1761 Eisenstadt, Austria, d. 12 Oct. or 23 Sept. 1837 Posen, Poland), aka "Gaon of Posen", aka "Akiva the Younger". Rabbi Akiva Eiger was born Akiva Ginz but went by Eiger out of reverence to his maternal grandfather. He was the rabbi in Märkisch Friedland, Westpreußen (Prussia) between 1791 and 1815. He then became the Chief Rabbi in Posen until 1837. Akiva married twice.

He first married Glückchen MARGOLIES (b. 1763 Lissa, Poland, d. 1796 Posen, Poland)

Their children used mostly their grandmother's surname and not their fathers. Akiva was named after his maternal Grandfather who was the Rabbi in Pressburg, Slovakia. The grandfather was a scholar of some note and respected by the Worldwide Jewish Community.

See article in Wikipedia.

1. Rabbi Abraham Ben Akiva EGER of Rawitch (b. 1781 Lissa, Poland, d. 1853 Rogasen, Poland) m. Haja YOCHEVED (d. 1855 Posen). Towards the end of his life he became the Rabbi of Rogozno (Rogasen).
   • Zirke Barkiche Charlotte EGER (b. 1800, d. 1880) married R. Eliyahu LANDSBERG (1800-1879 Hanover)
   • Chana Radisch EGER married R. Yacob LITTAUER (d. 1824 Posen).
     • Glückhen LITTAUER married R. Nahum STREISAND.
       • Dr. Med. STEISAND (Berlin)
   • Rivka EGER (b. 1807 Friedland, d. 1882 Berlin) married Moshe KARGER. She remarried COHN.
   • Sheinche EGER (d. 1862) first married Naphtali HIRSCH BLEICHRODE (b. Kumik d. Filene)
     Sheinche EGER remarried Shlomo Michael STRUCK (b. 1797, Obersitzko -d. 1871 Filine )(She was his second wife)
   • Johanna Chya EGER (b. 1810 Rawitsch, d. 1897 Berlin) married R. Yitzhak CARO (b. 1807, d. 1893 Berlin)
   
   
2. Rabbi Solomon (Shlomo) EGER (b. 1785/6 Lisa, d. 1852 Posen) married (1801) Golda HIRSCHENSOHN. Remarried (1815) ??? ZENSYMINER (b. 1798).
   
3. Scheindel EGER (b. 1784 or 1788 Lissa, d. 1797 Bromberg) married Rabbi Moshe Moritz Heinrich DAVIDSOHN (b. Lissa, d. before 1837 Bromberg).
   
4. Sorel Sara EGER, married twice, many children

Akiba Eger remarried (1796) the niece of his first wife Brendel HaLevy FEIBELMAN (b. 1780 Samter or Leszno [Lissa], d. 1836 Posen). Contact: Orit LAVI orit at olavi.co.il descendant Brendel's brother Rabbi Shimon HALEVI. According to Orit's sources Brendel's place of birth is indicated as Leszno (Lissa). She has no primary source confirming this fact; but according to her father's biography, it seems that he moved to Szamotuly (Samter) only in the early 1800s, when he was nominated as Rabbi there. [If you read Hebrew, the details and info sources are described at http://tinyurl.com/yp3c9k].

1. Moses EGER (b. 1799, d. 1879 Warsaw) m. Gitel GOLDREICH (b. 1799)
   
2. Benjamin Wolf EGER, (1805-1890 Berlin) m. Basha FINKELSTEIN (b. Johannisburg d. 1890? Berlin)
   
3. Hadassah EGER, (b. 1806 -before 1837 Brody) m. R. Meir ROSANES (d. 1878 Brody). He remarried his wife's sister Beile EGER.
   • Jocheved ROSANES married R. Nathan TENNENBAUM (Morad Poland)
     • Akiva TENNENBAUM married Scheindel LEINER
   
   
4. Feidelmann EGER, (1807-1808 M. Friedland)
   
5. Freide (Friedche) EGER, (b. Posen d. 1877 Lublin) m. R. Simcha Ephraim Fishel GRODSTEIN (b. Lublin d. 1881 Jerusalem)
   • Yehoshua GRODSTEIN (b. Lublin d. Wilna) married Sara Lieba (b. Danzig d. Wilna)
     • Yissachar Ber GRODSTEIN (Wilna)
   
   
6. Henrietta Gittel Akiva EGER, (b. 1808 or 1811 according to EGER family book, d. 5 May 1891 Breslau) married (1826) Rabbi Samuel (Shmuel) KORNFELD (b. 1810 Brody, d. 1875 Breslau). They lived in Posen.
   • Martin Mandel KORNFELD (b. 17 April 1829 Posen, d. 23 Aug. 1896 Berlin) married (5 May 1856) Jenny Lissner (b. about 1833). An article that appeared in the Kronika Miasta Poznania, No. 1 of 2009, subtitled "Poznanscy Zydzi II." The name of the article is Karolczak, Waldemar, "Martin i Wilhelm Kornfeldowie i ich artystyczne pasje," pp. 84-101, with endnotes, pp. 100-101. The article contains much biographical information on the entire family, and even a photograph of the resident cards for Martin's entire family in Posen (from the Poznan archives) and an illustration of a fragment of Wilhelm's gravestone (in German).
     • Eugene Max A. KORNFELD (b. 29 Jan. 1857 Posen, d. 22 April 1902 Berlin) m. Elise AVELLIS (b. 26 June 1867 Berlin, d. Berlin)
       • Charlotte Henrietta KORNFELD (b. 1898 Berlin, d. U.S.A.) m. Fritz Warner SCHLESINGER (b. 1898 Berlin, d. U.S.A.)
         • Thomas Otto SCHLESINGER m. Pat POWERS
   
   
7. Rebekka Rivka EGER, (1812-1884 or 1889 [according to EGER family book\ Dubnow) m. R. Shmuel BIRNBAUM (1810 Pilz-1887 Dubnow)
   
8. Isaak Loeb EGER (d. 1871) m. Feigel FLATOW
   
9. Samuel Yaacov EGER (b. 1818 Posen d. Minsk) m. Clara COHEN.
   
10. Simha Bunim EGER (b. 1821 Posen, d.1867 Brzezany) m. Golda SILVER (d. 1889 Brzezany)
    • Edel Hudel EGER (b. 1858 Brzezany d. 1932 Cracow) married Yona LIEBERMANN (Brzezany). Daughter: Feige Hene Helene LIEBERMANN (b. 1878 Brzezany d. 1930 Cracow) married Ignatz Itzchak KOHANE (b. 1875 Cracow d. 1955 Tel-Aviv)
      • Dr. Akiva KOHANE (b. 1911 Cracow, d. 1995 Boston) m. Yehudit ZIMMMERMANN (b. 1927 Poland). Children: Dr. Itzhak Shnuel KOHANE (b. 1960 Geneva); Dr. Daniel Salomon KOHANE (b. 1962 Geneva)
      • Abraham Yona KOHANE (b. 1916 Cracow, d. 1944) m. Raya ASHKENAZY (b. 1916 Cracow, d. 1994 Tel Aviv)
    • Sara LIEBERMANN (b. 1851 Brzezany d. 1933 Cracow) married HOROWITZ. Son: Shalom HOROWITZ (b. 1880 Cracow d. 1955/6 Jerusalem)
    • Basya EGER married Wolf Silber BERZANY.
      • Manale BERZANY married Bina Bincha ADLER daughter of Chaje and Yehudah Yona HASS (b. Stanislow).
        • Akiva Moshe SILVER (b. Gateshead) m. Rachel Dvora CARMEL (b. Dobrzhyn, Poland, d. Liverpool, United Kingdom)
          • Menachem (Manale, Manny) SILVER (b. Gateshead, England) married Henriette BLUMENTHAL (b. Hoffheiem-in-Unterfranken, Wurzburg, Bayern/Bavaria, Germany).
            • Rabbi Shimon SILVER halochoscope@hotmail.com
            • Bina SILVER
            • Samuel (Shmuel) A. SILVER maketelinc@optonline.net
            • Yitzchok SILVER
            • Baruch David SILVER
    • Rebeka (Riwka) EGER
    • Gutel (Genia) EGER
    
    
11. Beile EGER. (1822 Posen- d. 1899 Brody) m. her sister's husband R. Meir ROSANES (d. 1878 Brody).
    • Prof. L. ROSANES (b. Brody, d. Breslau)
    
    
12. David EGER, (1824-1877 Breslau)
    
13. Jette EGER (b. 1827 Popsen, d. 1881 Krotoschin) m. Shimon BERLINER (b. 1815, d. 1884 Krotoschin)
    • Jacob BERLINER.
      • Alfred BERLINER (d. 1939) married Martha KRITOVSKI. Son: Akiva Zvi BERLINER (b. 1922)
    • Albert BERLINER (b. 1861 Berlin). Sons: Arnold BERLINER, Moritz BERLINER, Schmuel BERLINER
    
    
14. Rodisch EGER (b. between 1800 and 1804 in Markisch-Friedland, Ostrava, d. 12 Aug. 1849 Wollstein, buried Breslau) m. Wolf SCHIFF (d. Breslau, Wroclaw) merchant.
    • Carl SCHIFF (b. 21 Mar. 1824 Wollstein, Wolsztyn, d. 23 Apr. 1897 Breslau, Wroclaw) merchant, m. (24 Jan. 1853 Gleiwitz) Natalie SCHLESINGER (b. 6 Oct. 1829 Gleiwitz, d. 12 Apr. 1901 Breslau, Wroclaw)
    • Yehoshua SCHIFF married Johanna ORGLER
      • Arthur SCHIFF
      • Fanny SCHIFF married Schimon Bernhard LEVY (b. around 1844, d. 1891 Breslau). Child: Dorit LEVY
      • Jenny SCHIFF married Jacob LAPPE
    • Max SCHIFF (b. 9 Apr. 1829 Breslau, Wroclaw, d. 19 Aug. 1903 Vienna) m. ((27 Nov. 1859 Vienna) Carolina SCHLESINGER (b. 1839 Budapest, d. 28 Apr. 1908 Vienna)
    • John SCHIFF (b. 1825 Breslau, d. 24 July 1899 Tullnerbach). Possibly co-owner of Gaivapol textile firm with brother.Max SCHIFF. John married (27 Nov. 1859) Carolina SCHLESINGER (b. 1839 Budapest, d. 28 Apr. 1908 Vienna)
      • Walter SCHIFF (b. 6 May 1866 Vienna, d. 2 Feb. 1870 Vienna)
      • Dr. Felix SCHIFF (b. 1867, d. around 25 Aug. 1932 Vienna) chemist, married Lisette Emma KANITZ.
        • Hildegard SCHIFF married Robert KARPLUS
        • Johannes SCHIFF
        • Walter SCHIFF
      • Robert SCHIFF (b. 17 Jan. 1869 Vienna, d. 1935 Vienna) artist/painter, married (30 Sep. 1897 Vienna) Regina EIBENSCHUTZ (b. 1869, d. 1956) actress.
        • Lotte SCHIFF
        • Friedrich Hermann SCHIFF (b. 1908, d. 1968 Vienna), artist/caricaturist, married Elisabeth KAMPF. Daughter: Marietta SCHIFF.
      • Albert SCHIFF (b. 21 May 1870 Vienna, d. 26 Feb. 1871 Vienna)
    • Philip SCHIFF
    • daughter SCHIFF married Karl SINZHEIMER

Also: A daughter Sheindl who was a widow living in Bramburg in 1838.

According to Arie OLEWSKI's records ariolew@gmail.com, one of Rabbi Akiva EGER's great-granddaughters (appearently Brane FERNEBUCH) married Rabbi Rafael OLEWSKI, who was the rabbi of Strykow (Poland) in 1865 [Arie's great-great-grandfather].

Information on this page contributed by David Peter John LEWIN davidlewin at btinternet.com, Alisa SHARON alisa_Sharon at yahoo.com, Julien Jean-Claude EGER julien.eger@wanadoo.fr, Gary PALGON GMPalgon at Yahoo.com and Irene PETERS.

Daniel KLAPPER Danklapper@aol.com is related to Rabbi Akiva EGER.

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