David William Perle sent this the transcript of the lineage that his namesake and great-grandfather William Dav Perhaid Perle left in 1948 to his offspring. The majority of this lineage was written Haim MIRELS for his son Tzvi Hirsh. (See the yicchus brief of his father Gaon Rabbi Aaron Mirelsh: original pages 1, 2, 3 and typed pages 1, 2).
Nisan 7th, 5708.
April 18th, 1948.
I, William David PERLE, the son of Alexander PERLE, born in Kalish, Poland, at present, residing in Noth Bergen, New Jersey, U.S.A., hereby record my lineage and that of my wife Miriam, as a memento to our daughters Anna Esther and Elizabeth and our son Lester Jacob. May they enjoy the blessings of the Almighty for good health, peace and success.
My wife Miriam is the daughter of Reb Yehuda Leib Hacohen Croll, who was a disciple of the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer, the Rabbi of Kalish, and also a disciple of the latter's successor, the Gaon Rabbi Hyim Eliezer Wax, author of the book "Nefesh Hyim".
My father, Reb Alexander of blessed memory, was the son of the Gaon Rabbi David who served as Rabbi of Kalish for fifty-two years [1]. My mother, Esther Hannah of blessed memory, daughter of Reb Zev Wolf Dembinsky, was the grandaughter of the Gaon Rabbi Aaron Mirelsh of blessed memory, Rabbi of Vreshna, from his daughter Binna. The Lineage of the Gaon Rabbi Aaron Mirelsh is traced in the lineal record of his son Hyim, which the latter transmitted as a remembrance to his son Tzvi Hirsh, and which is as follows:
I, Hyim Mirelsh, am the son of the Gaon Aaron Mirelsh of blessed memory, author of the books "Toras Habais" and "Hadras Habais", Rabbi of Vreshna, and formerly the Rabbi of the following cities: Chentshin and the district of Krakow, Korb and Uzruov; the son of the Gaon Tzvi Mirelsh, Rabbi of Vreshna, and formerly the Rabbi of Shverin, author of the book "Mispar Tzvoom", who passed away in the year 5574, corresponding to the year 1814, with a good name, having lived through many trying experiences, as mentioned in the testament he left in Vreshna; the son of the Gaon Rabbi Aaron Mirelsh of Londin; the son of the Gaon Zalmon Mirelsh, Rabbi of Hamburg, who had twenty-five children, and was father-in-law of the Gaon Haham Tzvi, and also lived to see 400 descendants; the son of the Gaon David Jacob Kopl Mirelsh, Rabbi of Vienna who had three sons: the Gaon Zalmon Mirelsh, a leader and a wealthy man in Berlin, from whom descended the Gaon Korban Adoh, and the Chassid Aliyohu Frankel, and also the pious Elka, the wife of Feitel, a man of distinction in Berlin. The above Gaon Rabbi David Jacob Kopl Mirelsh also had two daughters, one married to the Gaon Dunvil Pershoy, the father-in-law of the Gaon Abraham Brodo, and the second daughter was married to the Gaon Meiel, the Dayon of Vienna; the son of the Gaon Yoel Wolf; the son of the Gaon Naftoli Hirsh Mirelsh, Rabbi of Puldo; the son of the Gaon Aaron Mirelsh of Vienna; the son of the Gaon Kopl; the son of the Gaon Aaron Heller Vellerstein, who traced his lineage to the House of King David.
The wife of Rabbi Zalmon Mirelsh was Gnendil, the daughter of Rabbi Baruch Karplis. The wife of Rabbi Aaron Mirelsh of Londin was Miriam, the daughter of the Gaon Shlomo Levy. The wife of Rabbi David Mirelsh was Rechla, the daughter of Rabbi Jacob Kopl Halevi of Prague. She was the sister of Rabbi Aaron, the son-in-law of the author of the "Tosfos Yom Tov", and the prominent Rabbi Moshe Mirelsh of Vienna, and also the sister of Duberl, the wife of the Gaon Moshe Reb Mendels, Rabbi of Pozno and Prague.
The wife of Rabbi Aaron Mirelsh was Mirel, the daughter of the Chassid Abraham Hellerstein, the son of the great scholar Jacob Kopl Segal of Prague.
Tracing eight generations on the paternal side of my mother: My mother, the pious and well-known Rebetzin Vitch, who passed away with a good name in Warsaw and her meritorious praise is engraved on her tombstone, was the daughter of the Gaon Tzvi Hirsh, Rabbi of Opatchna, and of Tzemplburg, who died in Hildeseim while serving in the Rabbinate there; the son of the Gaon Rabbi Avigdor, Rabbi of Chentchin and the district of Krakow who had four sons: the Gaon Naftoli Hertzel Virshnitzer, the Gaon Yosef, author of the book "Tavnis Os Yosef", the Gaon Ezekiel Oystroptzer and the youngest, my grandfather, Tzvi Hirsh, the son of the Gaon Mendel Margoleos, Rabbi of Krotchin; the son of the Gaon Moshe Morgaleos; the son of the Gaon Mendel Margoleos, Rabbi of Premsla; the father-in-law of the Gaon Yitzhok Itzik Hacohen and, of the Gaon Naftoli Katz, Rabbi of Lublin, from whom descended the Gaon Naftoli, Rabbi of Posna and Frankfurt on the Mein, the son of the Gaon Yitzhok Shpitz Kop; the son of the Gaon Eliyohu Etigin, author of commentaries on "Masechess Horios" of the Talmud.
Rechla was the mother of his mother's father. She was the daughter of Rabbi Hirsh Segal Landi, known as Reb Hirsh Vitch from Apto. He had five sons: the Gaon Yitzhok Itzik Landi, the Gaon Yuda Landi, the father of the Gaon who was the author of the book "Noda Biyehuda", the Gaon Ezekiel Landi, the Gaon Wolf Tarner, and the Gaon Avrohom Landi; the son of the Gaon Ezekeil Segal Landi; the son of the Gaon Rabainu Hertzl, whose wife's name was Vitch and who was the grandson of the Gaon Itzik, Rabbi of Lublin; the son of the Gaon Aliyohu Halevi.
My mother's mother was Rebetzin Esther, the daughter of Rabbi Moske of Krotchin who also had a son Rabbi Mendel, Rabbi of Krotchin, known as Reb Mendel Shtanslaver; the son of the Gaon Menahem Mendel, Rabbi of Krotchin, author of the book "Ateres Zhanim"; the son of the distinguished Rabbi Zalmon Aurback and grandson of the Gaon Michel Rofey of Vienna.
My maternal grandmother Esther's mother was the well-known Freidl, the daughter of the Gaon Shoul, known as Shoyel who had a son the Gaon Aria Leib, Rabbi of Glugo and Amsterdam who was the son-in-law of the Gaon Haham Tzvi. The Gaon Leib had two sons: the Gaon Reb Tzvi, Rabbi of Berlin, and the Gaon Shoel, Rabbi of Amsterdam, and two daughters, one married to the Gaon Shoel, Rabbi of Hague, and the second to the Gaon Yitzhok, Rabbi of Krakow. The latter daughter had a son from her first husband whose Rabbi Hirshel Preger, Rabbi of Shverin; the son of the Gaon Hirshel, known as Rabainu Heshl; the son of the Gaon Jacob known as Rabainu Jacob, Rabbi of Lublin, the grandson of the Gaon Jacob Weil, known as Mahariu, author of "Mischitos Uvdikos" and "Responsa".
The mother of Friedel was Deborah, the daughter of the Gaon Aria Leib, known as our great Rabbi Leib of Krakow, who had three more daughters, one married to Rabbi Fishl Ladmer, the second to the Gaon Feivel Premsler, and the third to the Gaon Beth Shmuel; the son of the Gaon Zechariah Mendel; the son of the Gaon Meir, Rabbi of Brisk. Rabbi Feivel's son was the Gaon Chaim Yonah whose son was Yitzhok Yosef Tumin, Rabbi of Breslau, and he was father-in-law of Rabbi Yoel Wolf, from whom descended Jonah Frankel the son of the great Gaon Phinchus Hurovitz, the brother-in-law of the Ramo; the son of the Gaon Yuda Padvi; the son of the Gaon Maharom Padvi. And on his mother's side was the Gaon Leib, the grandson of the Gaon Marahol of Prague, who came from the family of Rashi and Rabbi of Yochonon Hasandlor, descendents from the House of David.
The name of the wife of the Gaon Heshl was Dinah, the daughter of the prominent Shoel Wohl. The lineage of his wife Chana is as follows: She was the daughter of the Rabbi, the Tzadik Itzik Halevi of Korb; the son of the Gaon Naftoli Hertz Halevi, Rabbi of Tarngrod, who had three sons: Reb Hirsh Meitshus of Yerislav, the father-in-law of the Gaon Yakov, Rabbi of wow, Reb Yisroel, Rabbi of Trubin and Reb Leib Yvuv, and his father-in-law Yuda, Rabbi of Vladovi, the son of the Gaon Yosef, Rabbi of Posno; the son of the Gaon Yisroel, Rabbi of Tarngrod; the son of the Gaon Hirsh, Rabbi of Rebshev; the son of the Gaon Phinchas Hurovitz Halevi; and from his mother's side a descendent of the Gaon Ramo, of blesed memory.
The mother of Chana was Sheindel, the daughter of the well-known Rabbi Feivel, the son of the Tzadik Leibish Kariver; son-in-law to the Gaon Yehoshua, Rabbi of Shemyatush, who was the grandson of the Gaon Shoul, the son, the son of the Gaon Heshl. And the mother of my father-in-law was the wife of the Gaon Hirsh Halevi, Rabbi of Zalchov, and sister of Rabbi Shmuel Zervotzer of Levto, who was the father-in-law of the Gaon Yitzhok Yosef Tumin of Breslau.
I give this record to my worthy son Tzvi Hirsh Mirelsh as a remembrance of his great ancestry, signed on the 4th day of the week, the 13th day of the month of Sivan, in the year 5609 corresponding to the year 1849.
(Signature) Hyim, the son of the Gaon Aaron Mirelsh, author of the book "Toras Habais", Vreshna. (Seal)
The above record is a translation from the original lineal document in Hebrew.
Note: [1] The Yicchus brief seems to gives an exagerated role to David Perle. David W. Perle writes: While the wording that my great-grandfather left in the brief is high misleading, I've confirmed that he did in fact hold a rabbinical role. The 1849 Kalisz birth record of my great-grandfather's father shows that the newborn's father was "the lower rabbi from Kalisz." Two people provided translations of the rabbi's 1867 death record. One translated his occupation as "cleric" and the other translated it as "a man of God=ecclesiastical." Also, playing with good ol' Google a while back, a translation for some other random marriage record noted the stand-in rabbi as my 3rd great-grandfather, Rabbi Dawid Perle.
Daniel E. LOEB, eMail: loeb17@gmail.com
