Ornstein Meaning: Dweller at or near the Eagle Rock or the Eagle Mountain. An alternative meaning is simply Ear-Stone or Ear-Rock.
Location:Eagle Mountain
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Meaning of our old family's name
Ornstein Meaning: Dweller at or near the Eagle Rock or the Eagle Mountain. An alternative meaning is simply Ear-Stone or Ear-Rock.
Monday, 11 July 2011
Revisiting the Ornstein Rabbinical Line
So, are we descended from the esteemed Rabbi Judah ben Loew? I am undecided. He had a daughter, Chaya. She married someone who would lead to the Ornstein line. Also spelt Orenstein and Orenshtein (rarer). There are the Romanian Ornsteins and the Austro-Hungarian (now Ukraine) Ornstreins. Both are Galitzers, from the area of Galitia / Galicia.
The Rabbinical line
Rabbi Moses Ashkenazi Ornstein died 1726. aka Rav Joskes of Zolkiev.
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3 sons:
•Rabbi Meshullam Zalman Ashkenazi Ornstein, Av Bet Din, Pamuran / Pamoryany Galicia. He was head of the Rabbin Court.
•Rabbi MORDECHAI Ze'ev Ornstein -The Great One - HaGadol.
•Rabbi Menahem Mendel Ornstein of Zolkiev.
Middle son, had 3 sons, and 3 daughters.
•Rabbi Eliakum Aryeh Leb Ornstein
b. Satnov. Rabbi in Rohatyn, Tarygrad Oven Yashan (O-Buda-Hungary) Radivil. Brother in-law was Rav Moshe Mintz.
•Rabbi Moses YEHOSHUAH HESHEL (Herschel?) authored Yam HaTalmud. b. 1774 d. 1824.
•Rabbi Jacob Meshullam Ornstein, b. 1775 d.1839, Brody, nr Lviv / Lemburg, now Ukraine, the A-H Empire.
He married a girl who was the daughter of Reb Zvi Hirsch Wahl of Jaroslav. He was from the direct line of Judah ben Loew, aka The Maharal of Prague. He aurhored volumes of Talmudic commentry and responsa, and famously the story "Golem", and is said to have even build it out of clay and had it "possessed". Strange story. Think Shelly's Frankenstein, Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, Robocop, Terminator etc. Pinochio too!
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Rabbi Moses, the second son had one daughter, one son:
• Rav Shmuel (SAMUEL)Yaakov Ornstein, who died in Lemburg/ Lvov
Rabbi Jacob Meshullam, the third son had one son (we know of):
•Rabbi MORDECAI Zev also spelt Zvi (Wolf?) Ornstein, b. 1790, Jaroslav, d. 1837. Was Av Bet Din of Przemysl, lived in Lemburg/ Lviv/Lvov. Wrote famous responsa Yeshuas Yaakov / Yesh u'ot Ya'akob.
Rabbi MORDECAI Zev "Wolf" Ornstein married Lena Maizish (also spelt Mezes, Moses, (perhaps also Moser) had three sons:
•Yerahmiel, b ?. d. 1824, soon after father. Was a businessman.
•Rabbi Zvi HIRSH Ornstein b.? d. 1888, was Av Bet Din of Lemburg/Lviv.
He married, Channah, daughter of Reb Aryeh Leib Broda (Brody / Braude / Broady etc). She died in 1913.
•Rabbi JOSEF HIRTZ Ornstein, d. Vienna, Austria as a young man.
Which line we may hale from is perhaps a mystery, but may be clear to someone who is more in the know than myself or Steven Charter. He told me that my great grandfathers, Max /Mark's (Mordechai) father was called Ephraim (Efraim). David Austin and his younger sister Elizabeth Dunn (nee Austin) were told while growing up, from their father Lew, that their grandfather or perhaps even great grandfather was a Rabbi. Who knows? Where are the records?
Sub Liet Lew Austin, 1944
From Dan Wyman Books, New York, U.S.A...
Item 97. Nahmanides, Jacob Meshullam Ben Mordecai Zeev Ornstein, Mordecai Leib Bisliches. ספר אוצר נחמד: והוא חדושי הרמב׳׳ן על מסכת שבת אשר לא נודע לישראל מיום הכתבו עד היום הזה. SEFER OTSAR NEHMAD: VE-HU HIDUSHE HA-RAMBAN AL MASEKHET SHABAT. Pressburg: A. Shmid, 1837. Cloth, 64 leaves [i. E. 128 pages], 8vo, 24 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Talmud. Shabbat --Commentaries. Other Titles: Title on title page. Verso; Ozar nechmad; Hidushe ha-Ramban al Masekhet Shabat. Fair Condition. Missing Front Cover. First page torn, with writings. Wear and tear on back cover and spine. Title page. Stained pages. Some pages ripped at the bottom. Back cover with writings. We can have this rebound for you if so desired. Please ask. (k-rab-1-14) (ID #21665) $60.00.
http://www.danwymanbooks.com/HEB2.htm
The Rabbinical line
Rabbi Moses Ashkenazi Ornstein died 1726. aka Rav Joskes of Zolkiev.
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3 sons:
•Rabbi Meshullam Zalman Ashkenazi Ornstein, Av Bet Din, Pamuran / Pamoryany Galicia. He was head of the Rabbin Court.
•Rabbi MORDECHAI Ze'ev Ornstein -The Great One - HaGadol.
•Rabbi Menahem Mendel Ornstein of Zolkiev.
Middle son, had 3 sons, and 3 daughters.
•Rabbi Eliakum Aryeh Leb Ornstein
b. Satnov. Rabbi in Rohatyn, Tarygrad Oven Yashan (O-Buda-Hungary) Radivil. Brother in-law was Rav Moshe Mintz.
•Rabbi Moses YEHOSHUAH HESHEL (Herschel?) authored Yam HaTalmud. b. 1774 d. 1824.
•Rabbi Jacob Meshullam Ornstein, b. 1775 d.1839, Brody, nr Lviv / Lemburg, now Ukraine, the A-H Empire.
He married a girl who was the daughter of Reb Zvi Hirsch Wahl of Jaroslav. He was from the direct line of Judah ben Loew, aka The Maharal of Prague. He aurhored volumes of Talmudic commentry and responsa, and famously the story "Golem", and is said to have even build it out of clay and had it "possessed". Strange story. Think Shelly's Frankenstein, Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, Robocop, Terminator etc. Pinochio too!
¥
Rabbi Moses, the second son had one daughter, one son:
• Rav Shmuel (SAMUEL)Yaakov Ornstein, who died in Lemburg/ Lvov
Rabbi Jacob Meshullam, the third son had one son (we know of):
•Rabbi MORDECAI Zev also spelt Zvi (Wolf?) Ornstein, b. 1790, Jaroslav, d. 1837. Was Av Bet Din of Przemysl, lived in Lemburg/ Lviv/Lvov. Wrote famous responsa Yeshuas Yaakov / Yesh u'ot Ya'akob.
Rabbi MORDECAI Zev "Wolf" Ornstein married Lena Maizish (also spelt Mezes, Moses, (perhaps also Moser) had three sons:
•Yerahmiel, b ?. d. 1824, soon after father. Was a businessman.
•Rabbi Zvi HIRSH Ornstein b.? d. 1888, was Av Bet Din of Lemburg/Lviv.
He married, Channah, daughter of Reb Aryeh Leib Broda (Brody / Braude / Broady etc). She died in 1913.
•Rabbi JOSEF HIRTZ Ornstein, d. Vienna, Austria as a young man.
Which line we may hale from is perhaps a mystery, but may be clear to someone who is more in the know than myself or Steven Charter. He told me that my great grandfathers, Max /Mark's (Mordechai) father was called Ephraim (Efraim). David Austin and his younger sister Elizabeth Dunn (nee Austin) were told while growing up, from their father Lew, that their grandfather or perhaps even great grandfather was a Rabbi. Who knows? Where are the records?
Sub Liet Lew Austin, 1944
From Dan Wyman Books, New York, U.S.A...
Item 97. Nahmanides, Jacob Meshullam Ben Mordecai Zeev Ornstein, Mordecai Leib Bisliches. ספר אוצר נחמד: והוא חדושי הרמב׳׳ן על מסכת שבת אשר לא נודע לישראל מיום הכתבו עד היום הזה. SEFER OTSAR NEHMAD: VE-HU HIDUSHE HA-RAMBAN AL MASEKHET SHABAT. Pressburg: A. Shmid, 1837. Cloth, 64 leaves [i. E. 128 pages], 8vo, 24 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Talmud. Shabbat --Commentaries. Other Titles: Title on title page. Verso; Ozar nechmad; Hidushe ha-Ramban al Masekhet Shabat. Fair Condition. Missing Front Cover. First page torn, with writings. Wear and tear on back cover and spine. Title page. Stained pages. Some pages ripped at the bottom. Back cover with writings. We can have this rebound for you if so desired. Please ask. (k-rab-1-14) (ID #21665) $60.00.
http://www.danwymanbooks.com/HEB2.htm
Location:Galitz, White Russia
Ornstein Origins: Matriarchs and Patriarchs...
Our Ornstein Matriarch
Dvorah Ornstein, nee Moser. Dobbie or Dora as she was known was born within the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, during the 1870's. She was the daughter of Yidel and Hannah Moser, and had a brother known as 'Buber' or 'Buba', according to Shirley Korner, (who is one of Frank Austin's daughters). Interestingly Buba usually means grandfather. Even more interestingly the ancient Israelite descended Lemba Tribe of Southern Africa's Limbpopo River region (Zimbabwe and South Africa), have amongst then a clan, who are descended from the Cohenim of the Temple Period. The name of this Cohen descended clan? Buba.
Lemba Member: Professor Rudo G.E.R. Mathivha, President of the Lemba Cultural Society.
Cohen or Buba is a hereditary priestly position inherited only, exclusively from the male line, dating back to the building of the Tabernacles. The very first Cohen was Aaron HaKohen, Cheif Priest of the Tabernacles, older brother of Rabbienu Moishe HaTovia, better known as Moses (The Good).
Yidel & Hannah Moser, 1890's.
Dobbie was married to Mordechai Ornstein, the son of Ephraim Ornstein, who may have been a Rabbi in what is now Ukraine, but back then was a part the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Max or Mark as he was known was born in 1869, and lived in the shtetl or dorph (village or small town) of Jagielnica also sometimes spelt Yahil'nytsia. Max had at least one other sibling, Benjamin. It may be suggested that Max and Ben were half brothers, born to the same mother, but to different fathers, obviously during different marriages. This is believed because Max's fathers name was Ephraim, where as Ben's father was Uri. It may even be further conjecture to suggest that these two fathers were actually brothers, and one had passed away. As in conjunction with biblical law, if a wife is widowed, the brother of her late husband, if unmarried would take responsibility for his late brother's wife and family, which would of course mean marrying her, and perhaps even within time, her bearing him children of his own. Both sons had the Ornstein surname, after all.
Uri was otherwise known as Bernard. His son Benjamin was from Lviv, now Lemburg, then provincial capital of Galitz, the largely Jewish region within the area designated as the Pale of Settlement.
Western Russia: The Pale of Settlement. From 'Jewish Americans' by Robert Stein, 2002
Benjamin and his son Harry who was born 15th September 1893, emigrated to Boston, U.S.A. in the early 1900's from Lviv. Some years later Harry Ornstein would enlist in Uncle Sam's elite fighting force, and become a G.I. He saw action in France during the 1914-1918 war and was wounded during a mustard or poisonous gas attack. He was transported back to England to convalesce. It was here that he met his cousin Leah, born 1902, who would nurse him back to better health, though he would never fully recover, spending the rest of his life disabled with severe breathing difficulties. Leah would emigrate to pastures-a-new, arriving in Boston in September 1924, just before the harsh winter set in. She was hoping to find the American dream, but the grim reality of a life in poverty, looking after a sick husband would eventually befall her. It was up to her children Melvin, Jerry and Rosalyn to lift themselves out of the humble living conditions they started out from.
Winter Years: The last picture of Leah Ornstein aged 99, 2002.
Leah's parents, Dora and Max arrived in the port of Plymouth, Devon, England sometime around the year 1902. They then spent their time between family in Plymouth and the Jewish East-End of London. By 1911 they were living at 25 Vauxhall Street, Plymouth, a stones throw from the bustling quayside.
They later settled in London, living at 11, Weston House, Goldsmiths Row, Hackney. They had family, cousins, aunties and uncles etc there, with the surnames Bigielsky (sic), Moser and Harkaway. By 1914 they resided at 44 Darling Row, Cambridge Road, "Buildings E", Hackney, East London. Max Ornstein would die tragically early on the 3rd day of April that same year. He was just 45 years of age, leaving behind a struggling widow and 7 young children. The cause of his death was Pulmonary Tuberculosis, T.B. He had been a journeyman carpenter, making furniture from bamboo. He may also have been odained as a Rabbi in his home country before coming to England, though so far there is no certainty or proof of this hypothesis, apart from the vague connection by surname and location to the 18th and 19th century dynastic Ornstein Rabbis of Lvov nowadays better known as Lemburg.
Jewish Americans is written by Robert Stein, and published in the U.K in 2002 by The Ivy Press Limited, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Dvorah Ornstein, nee Moser. Dobbie or Dora as she was known was born within the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, during the 1870's. She was the daughter of Yidel and Hannah Moser, and had a brother known as 'Buber' or 'Buba', according to Shirley Korner, (who is one of Frank Austin's daughters). Interestingly Buba usually means grandfather. Even more interestingly the ancient Israelite descended Lemba Tribe of Southern Africa's Limbpopo River region (Zimbabwe and South Africa), have amongst then a clan, who are descended from the Cohenim of the Temple Period. The name of this Cohen descended clan? Buba.
Lemba Member: Professor Rudo G.E.R. Mathivha, President of the Lemba Cultural Society.
Cohen or Buba is a hereditary priestly position inherited only, exclusively from the male line, dating back to the building of the Tabernacles. The very first Cohen was Aaron HaKohen, Cheif Priest of the Tabernacles, older brother of Rabbienu Moishe HaTovia, better known as Moses (The Good).
Yidel & Hannah Moser, 1890's.
Dobbie was married to Mordechai Ornstein, the son of Ephraim Ornstein, who may have been a Rabbi in what is now Ukraine, but back then was a part the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Max or Mark as he was known was born in 1869, and lived in the shtetl or dorph (village or small town) of Jagielnica also sometimes spelt Yahil'nytsia. Max had at least one other sibling, Benjamin. It may be suggested that Max and Ben were half brothers, born to the same mother, but to different fathers, obviously during different marriages. This is believed because Max's fathers name was Ephraim, where as Ben's father was Uri. It may even be further conjecture to suggest that these two fathers were actually brothers, and one had passed away. As in conjunction with biblical law, if a wife is widowed, the brother of her late husband, if unmarried would take responsibility for his late brother's wife and family, which would of course mean marrying her, and perhaps even within time, her bearing him children of his own. Both sons had the Ornstein surname, after all.
Uri was otherwise known as Bernard. His son Benjamin was from Lviv, now Lemburg, then provincial capital of Galitz, the largely Jewish region within the area designated as the Pale of Settlement.
Western Russia: The Pale of Settlement. From 'Jewish Americans' by Robert Stein, 2002
Benjamin and his son Harry who was born 15th September 1893, emigrated to Boston, U.S.A. in the early 1900's from Lviv. Some years later Harry Ornstein would enlist in Uncle Sam's elite fighting force, and become a G.I. He saw action in France during the 1914-1918 war and was wounded during a mustard or poisonous gas attack. He was transported back to England to convalesce. It was here that he met his cousin Leah, born 1902, who would nurse him back to better health, though he would never fully recover, spending the rest of his life disabled with severe breathing difficulties. Leah would emigrate to pastures-a-new, arriving in Boston in September 1924, just before the harsh winter set in. She was hoping to find the American dream, but the grim reality of a life in poverty, looking after a sick husband would eventually befall her. It was up to her children Melvin, Jerry and Rosalyn to lift themselves out of the humble living conditions they started out from.
Winter Years: The last picture of Leah Ornstein aged 99, 2002.
Leah's parents, Dora and Max arrived in the port of Plymouth, Devon, England sometime around the year 1902. They then spent their time between family in Plymouth and the Jewish East-End of London. By 1911 they were living at 25 Vauxhall Street, Plymouth, a stones throw from the bustling quayside.
They later settled in London, living at 11, Weston House, Goldsmiths Row, Hackney. They had family, cousins, aunties and uncles etc there, with the surnames Bigielsky (sic), Moser and Harkaway. By 1914 they resided at 44 Darling Row, Cambridge Road, "Buildings E", Hackney, East London. Max Ornstein would die tragically early on the 3rd day of April that same year. He was just 45 years of age, leaving behind a struggling widow and 7 young children. The cause of his death was Pulmonary Tuberculosis, T.B. He had been a journeyman carpenter, making furniture from bamboo. He may also have been odained as a Rabbi in his home country before coming to England, though so far there is no certainty or proof of this hypothesis, apart from the vague connection by surname and location to the 18th and 19th century dynastic Ornstein Rabbis of Lvov nowadays better known as Lemburg.
Jewish Americans is written by Robert Stein, and published in the U.K in 2002 by The Ivy Press Limited, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Location:Jagielnica, Ukraine
Sunday, 10 July 2011
The Pale of Settlement
This map gives some indication as to the expanse of the region known to us as 'The Pale of Settlement'.
In 1791, Catherine the Great, Czarina of Russia created a zone of residence - some called it a zone of containment for the Jews.
This territory comprised more than 38,000 square miles (more than 1 million square kilometres), west of Russia stretching between the Baltic and Black Seas. The Jews called it "the Pale," and most were restricted to this area until after the Russian Revelolution of 1917.
This region, east of Berlin and west of Moscow, was disputed territory for many years and included lands that today are known as Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belorussia, and Ukraine. But names of countries hardly mattered to the Jews.
ONE COULD BE BORN IN CZARIST RUSSIA, THEN LIVE IN GERMAN TERRITORY, BECOME A POLISH CITIZEN , THEN BECOME LITHUANIAN, MOVE BACK TO GERMAN CONTROL, AND FINALLY BECOME A CITIZEN OF A SOVIET REPUBLIC - AND NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE WHERE YOU WERE BORN!
It was home to nearly all the world's Jews - in 1880 around 4 million Jews lived in the Pale, out of a world population of 7.7 million (another 2 million Jews lived outside the Pale but in Eastern Europe).
They lived in "nameless" Shtetls (small villages) such as Jagielnica, Kaisiadorys and Trakai, as well as Dorphs (larger towns) like Zasliai, Landau and Brody, and cities such as Lodz, Warsaw, Minsk, Bialystok, Vilna and Lvov. They shared a rich culture and a relgion, and a language - Yiddish....
From the book, 'Jewish Americans' by Robert Stein, published by Barrons/ Ivy Press Ltd, 2002.
http://rights.ivypress.co.uk/resource/?pid=1755
In 1791, Catherine the Great, Czarina of Russia created a zone of residence - some called it a zone of containment for the Jews.
This territory comprised more than 38,000 square miles (more than 1 million square kilometres), west of Russia stretching between the Baltic and Black Seas. The Jews called it "the Pale," and most were restricted to this area until after the Russian Revelolution of 1917.
This region, east of Berlin and west of Moscow, was disputed territory for many years and included lands that today are known as Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belorussia, and Ukraine. But names of countries hardly mattered to the Jews.
ONE COULD BE BORN IN CZARIST RUSSIA, THEN LIVE IN GERMAN TERRITORY, BECOME A POLISH CITIZEN , THEN BECOME LITHUANIAN, MOVE BACK TO GERMAN CONTROL, AND FINALLY BECOME A CITIZEN OF A SOVIET REPUBLIC - AND NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE WHERE YOU WERE BORN!
It was home to nearly all the world's Jews - in 1880 around 4 million Jews lived in the Pale, out of a world population of 7.7 million (another 2 million Jews lived outside the Pale but in Eastern Europe).
They lived in "nameless" Shtetls (small villages) such as Jagielnica, Kaisiadorys and Trakai, as well as Dorphs (larger towns) like Zasliai, Landau and Brody, and cities such as Lodz, Warsaw, Minsk, Bialystok, Vilna and Lvov. They shared a rich culture and a relgion, and a language - Yiddish....
From the book, 'Jewish Americans' by Robert Stein, published by Barrons/ Ivy Press Ltd, 2002.
http://rights.ivypress.co.uk/resource/?pid=1755
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...
Coming to America: Statue of Liberty Poem...
Also known as the Statue of Liberty poem, New Colossus and its famous last lines have become part of American history. Here is the sonnet originally written by Emma Lazarus, in its unedited entirety:
New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Also known as the Statue of Liberty poem, New Colossus and its famous last lines have become part of American history. Here is the sonnet originally written by Emma Lazarus, in its unedited entirety:
New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Location:New York City
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