Auguste KALISCHER and her SCHEININ Family
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January 18, 2014Two years ago, from information sent to me by Anna Bieniaszewska, the local expert on the old Torun / Thorn Jewish community in general, and the KALISCHER family in particular, I learned that the mother-in-law of R. Zwi Hirsch KALISCHER (1795-1874) was named Golde. That, and that she was the wife of Jacob David COHN of Nieszawa, are all that I know of this great great great grandmother.
While writing the previous blog entry about R. Zwi Hirsch KALISCHER’s daughter Auguste SCHEININ geb. KALISCHER (1851-1920), I read the beginning part of the Hebrew inscription from her gravestone and noted that her Hebrew name was Golde.
So, this youngest and least known of the siblings of my great grandmother Johanna FALK geb. KALISCHER (1845-1929), was named after her grandmother Golde.
From that, we can determine that the elder Golde must have died between March 1847 when Zwi Hirsch KALISCHER and his wife Henriette (Gitel) geb. COHN named a daughter Jenny (Jenny FOERDER geb. KALISCHER (1847-1928)) and September 1851, when their Auguste Golde was born.
And from the fact that Auguste’s 21-year-older brother Ludwig (Louis) (Juda Löb) KALISCHER (1820-1901) named his first daughter Therese in October 1850, and not a name likely to be associated with “Golde”, it seems likely that the elder Golde died between October 1850 and September 1851.
That said, the elder Golde’s son Schaje COHN (married to Friederike KALISCHER) named his first daughter Therese (date unknown). Perhaps these Therese’s did have the Hebrew name “Golde”. If so, the date for Golde’s death would return to the broader period 1847-1851.
Great great great grandmother Golde COHN geb. ??, died ca.1850 (probably).
