Descendants of HIRSCH MOSES from Ropperhausen (Großropperhausen) / Hesse Compiled by Barbara Greve - 2014 The story of the Jews of Ropperhausen 1 is the story of the Moses family. 2 There had been named different Jews before the first notice of a Moses, but all of them left Ropperhausen after some time. HIRSCH MOSES (2) was the first one of the family, who was verifiable in a document. In 1709 he was named as Hirsch and in 1713/14 as Hirsch Moses. 3 The last notice implies that he had been son of a Moses. The only MOSES (1) we know about in Ropperhausen was named in a tax-list of 20 July 1675. 4 There it is written that Moses was coming from Vienna, where all Jews had been expelled in 1671. He settled in Ropperhausen since one and a half year under the protection of Rudolf von Gilsa, but he had had no real protection note (Schutzbrief) and did not pay silver-taxes. It seems as if this Moses had been the ancestor of all MOSES of Ropperhausen, for Hirsch Moses was born in 1676, so that he may have been his son. Moses died after 1708. 2 HIRSCH MOSES and his wife had had three sons and one daughter, whose name is unknown. He was no well settled man when he first was named, but in 1731 he was owner of a house and a cow and employed two menials. In 1744 he was named as 68 years old. Hirsch Moses died after 1754 5 and before 1761 6. + 3 Isaac Itzig Hirsch b abt 1708 Ropperhausen + 4 Moses Hirsch b 1712/14 Ropperhausen + 5 Abraham Hirsch b Ropperhausen 6 NN fem. b Ropperhausen 3 ISAAC ITZIG HIRSCH was the eldest son of Hirsch Moses (2). He was born about 1708 in Ropperhausen. Isaac Itzig Hirsch married to Neukirchen, where he was named since 1733. His family story will be compiled in a separate tree. 4 MOSES HIRSCH was born in 1712/14 in Ropperhausen as second son of Hirsch Moses (2). In 1744 he asked for a protection note instead of his 68 years old father, who promised to endow him with 600 Reichstalern. But for missing of a permission of the Landlord von Baumbach his application was denied by clerks of the Landgrave of Hesse. Moses Hirsch only was permitted to stay in Ropperhausen and work for his father. 7 Moses Hirsch married before 1754. He already had been 65 years old when he was named in a tax list of 1779. There it is written that formerly he had been a cattle dealer by his own, but now he was too poor to do this job further on. Therefore he fed his family only by intermediating cattle trading. But he still was owner of a house and a small meadow. Moses Hirsch had to deliver each year to the 1 Ropperhausen was named Groß ropperhausen in late 19th century. For standardizing the name Ropperhausen is used in that family tree. 2 Barbara Greve, Zwischen Schutzbrief und Staatsbürgerschaft. Juden in (Groß)Ropperhausen – 1600 bis 1816. Schwälmer Jahrbuch 2015, p. 65-74. 3 Hesse State Archive Marburg (HStAM) Best. 40a Rubr. 16 Pkt. 6. 4 HStAM Best. 17I Nr. 220. 5 His grandson Isaak was born in 1754. 6 His grandson Hirsch was born in 1761. 7 HStAM Best. 5 Nr. 2347. 1 local landlord von Baumbach some small money plus a cock and a goose. It is unknown to whom he was married; it seems as if he was married twice. We don´t know when he died. + 7 Isaak Moses b 1754 Ropperhausen + 8 Hirsch Moses b 1761 Ropperhausen + 9 Bermann Moses b 1762 Ropperhausen + 10 Gütel Moses b 1770 Ropperhausen + 11 Abraham Moses b 1774 Ropperhausen + 12 Elle Moses b 1780 Ropperhausen 5 ABRAHAM HIRSCH was son of Hirsch Moses (2). He was born at unknown date (b abt. 1712?) in Ropperhausen. He was named only one time in a document of 1737 as son of Hirsch Moses. 8 7 ISAAK MOSES was the eldest son of Moses Hirsch (4). He was born in 1754 in Ropperhausen. Isaak was named after the brother of his father, for his grandfather Hirsch Moses probably still was alive. In 1779 Isaak Moses was not yet named in a tax list9, for he got his protection note for Ropperhausen only on 01 Jan 1792. 10 Isaak Moses was a cattle dealer like his father. In 1823 he was in common with his brother Hirsch Moses named as owner of a house with some small garden and meadow. In 1792 Isaak Moses married BREINE SALOMON , who was born in 1762. In further documents she was called BREINE LEVI. We don´t know where she came from, but by her name she seem to be a daughter of Salomon Levi. The couple had less six children. 11 Isaac Moses died in Ropperhausen on 04 May 1829, Breine Moses died unknown date. + 13 Blümchen Moses b 1795 Ropperhausen + 14 Salomon Moses b 19 Nov 1798 Ropperhausen + 15 Hirsch Moses b 22 Feb 1801 Ropperhausen + 16 Ephraim Moses b 21 Oct 1804 Ropperhausen + 17 Reischen Moses b 1807 Ropperhausen + 18 Abraham Moses b 05 Jan 1809 Ropperhausen 8 HIRSCH MOSES was son of Moses Hirsch (4). He was born in 1761 in Ropperhausen. He was a cattle dealer and got his protection note for Ropperhausen on 01 Aug 1794. On 13 Nov 1795 he married in Kirchhain SARA BENEDIKT , born in 1777 in Kirchhain as daughter of the butcher Benedikt Löw Oppenheimer and Bette Bela Katz. Hirsch Moses was named in a list of Jews in 1816 and again in 1832, when the Ropperhausen Jews asked for the permission to constitute a Jewish community by their own. At least he was named at the marriage of his son Marum Markus Moses with his niece Berche Moses. Hirsch Moses died on 26 Dec 1843 in Ropperhausen; Sara Moses died in Frielendorf at the age of 78 years on 02 Jan 1855. She was buried on the old Jewish cemetery of Frielendorf, which 12 was transferred in early 20th century. 8 HStAM Best. 40a Rubr. 16 Ziegenhain. 9 HStAM 49d Ziegenhain Nr. 177. 10 HStAM Best. 33b Nr. 211. Isaak Moses got his permission note as eldest son, but it is quite unusual, that his brothers got this permission, too. (see below) 11 With regard to the Jewish name tradition there should have been a son called Moses, who may be born before 1795 and perhaps died as a child. Another explication may be that this assumed Moses already had been married like his sister Blümchen, though that he was no longer named in the list of Jews of 1816. 12 The old Jewish cemetery of Frielendorf was founded in the middle of the 19th century. Formerly the Frielendorf Jews were buried on the Jewish cemetery of Ziegenhain-Niedergrenzebach. The old Frielendorf cemetery was destroyed from 1924 on by coal mining. Formerly all bodies and tombstones were transported to the new Frielendorf Jewish cemetery, which was founded in 1923. 2 + 19 Moses Moses b 18 Feb 1796 Ropperhausen + 20 Levi Moses b 24 Apr 1798 Ropperhausen + 21 Marum Moses b 12 Oct 1801 Ropperhausen + 22 Beile Moses b 1804 Ropperhausen + 23 Abraham Moses b 14 Nov 1806 Ropperhausen + 24 Fromet Moses b 1808 Ropperhausen + 25 Benedikt Moses b 23 Dec 1810 Ropperhausen + 26 Markus Moses b 25 Jul 1814 Ropperhausen 9 BERMANN MOSES was born in 1762 in Ropperhausen as probably a son of Moses Hirsch (4). He only is known by the Jewish death record of Ropperhausen, where he is named as 62 years old cattle dealer, who died on 12 Jan 1830 in Ropperhausen. 10 GÜTEL MOSES was the eldest daughter of Moses Hirsch (4). She was born in 1770 in Ropperhausen. Gütel Moses first was married to ISAAC MEYER of Spangenberg. The couple had two sons. Isaac Meyer died between 1805 and 1810. Gütel Moses second husband was DAVID STERN from Densberg. He was born in 1780 in Niederurff as son of Seligmann Abraham, who later called himself Stern, too. 27 Herz Isaac (Meyer /Stern) b 14 Oct 1803 Spangenberg 28 Hirsch Isaac (Meyer /Stern) b 1805 Spangenberg 29 Abraham Stern b 1811 Densberg 11 ABRAHAM MOSES was son of Moses Hirsch (4). He was born in 1774 in Ropperhausen. He was wholesale dealer with cattle. Abraham Moses got his permission note for Ropperhausen on 7 Aug 1803. In 1806 he married REBEKKA ROSE (Rebekka Schafte), born in 1784 in Naumburg as daughter of Schafte Rose from Naumburg. In 1815 Abraham Moses bought a house in Treysa, a small town nearby Ropperhausen. After some trouble he got his document as citizen of Treysa and the permission to settle there on 13 Aug 1817. Further on he was quite successful as wholesaler. In 1833 Abraham and Rebekka Moses returned to Ropperhausen, where he died on 30 Mar 1849. He probably was buried on the Jewish cemetery in Ziegenhain-Niedergrenzebach. Rebekka Moses died on 27 Apr 1873; she was buried on the Ropperhausen Jewish cemetery. + 30 Berle Perle Moses b 23 Jul 1808 Ropperhausen + 31 Moses Moses b 22 Oct 1810 Ropperhausen + 32 Besgen Moses b 1814 Ropperhausen + 33 Isaak Moses b 07 Feb 1817 Ropperhausen + 34 Sarchen Schönchen Moses b 1819 Treysa + 35 Hirsch Moses b 29 Jul 1821 Treysa + 36 Elias Moses b 10 Oct 1822 Treysa + 37 Marum Moses b 19 Jun 1824 Treysa + 38 Ruben Moses b 17 Sept 1825 Treysa 3 12 ELLE MOSES was daughter of Moses Hirsch (4).