The LANDAU Monologues in Six Parts (6 of 6)
November 16, 2015More Ideas about Haskel LANDAU (Part 8 of 6)
November 29, 2015Part 7 – Jecheskel ben Isaak LANDAU in Kempen
This morning, looking online for information about my great great great uncle Samuel LANDAU of Kempen (b.1842, Kempen), I bumped into a reference to Jecheskel (ben Isaak) LANDAU instead.
In part 2 of R. Louis LEWIN’s article “Deutsche Einwanderungen in polnische Ghetti” in the Jahrbuch der jüdisch-Literarischen Gesellschaft (Frankfurt 1907), in a paragraph about Landau, he wrote “Jecheskel, Sohn des Rabbiners Isaak Landau, zeichnete 1824 in Kempen, …”. The part of a footnote supporting that statement about Jecheskel LANDAU reads “Vertrag mit Rabb. Landau-Kempen vom 17.Nissan 1824”.
With all my speculation about my great great great grandfather Haskel LANDAU of Kempen since 2008, this is the first time that Haskel (Jecheskel) LANDAU living in Kempen was directly identified as being a son of a R. Isaac (Jitzhak) LANDAU.
In 1999, in connection with FALK family research and Lissa research, I learned that the papers of rabbi and historian R. Louis LEWIN (1868-1941) are in the archive of Yeshiva University in New York. I have sent a note to the archivist to inquire whether Yeshiva University has a copy of the 1824 contract which R. LEWIN. Time will tell.
The earliest child of Haskel and Nesche LANDAU whose birth appears in the Kempen Jewish community records is Taube LANDAU who was born 28 October 1825. Now it can be shown that Haskel (Jecheskel) LANDAU, son of R. Isaac LANDAU, was living in Kempen in 1824. Although there could be two contemporaries named Jecheskel ben Jitzhak LANDAU, this new information from 1824 via 1907 seems to further reinforce the conclusion that my great great great grandfather Haskel was Jecheskel ben R. Jitzhak LANDAU.
A successful research day, but with no new information about Samuel, son of Haskel LANDAU and Nesche LANDAU geb. LANDAU.
