1. I am a descendent of Israel Zalmanov Halperin from Berditchev (I am his great-great-great-great-great-grand-son). Would anyone know about the real identity of Israel Zalmanov Halperin's father? Logically, Israel Zalmanov's father should have carried the name Zalman : this is not the case in the lineage which you can find here on Geni (https://www.geni.com/family-tree/canvas/6000000002764392121) which indicates that Yosef Charif AB''D Barditschev Halperin was Israel Zalmanov's father. But I have an Efraim Zalman Halperin in a different lineage which comes essentially from undocumented family sources. Any idea which lineage would be the right one ?
2. In the book : Dan Ben-Amos, Dov Noy, Ellen Frankel : Folktales of the Jews, vol 2. Tales from Eastern Europe. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 2006, the name Yosef Halperin is mentioned as that of a rich merchant and a very generous and charitable person, who was admired par Rabbi Levi Yitz'hak of Berditchev to the point that the latter, contrary to his self imposed avoidance of funerals, attended those of Yosef Halperin whom he considered as a righteous. Could this Yosef Halperin be a father or an uncle of Israel Zalmanov Halperin? However, whether the father of Israel Yosef Zalmanov Halperin was Yosef ‘Harif AB’’D Berditchev Halperin (as per Geni lineage) or Ephraim Zalman (as per private lineage), they both were rabbis (which is also conveyed by family hearsays) and none of them was a rich merchant as in the folktale. But maybe one could be both rich and a rabbi, in which case Yosef 'Harif might be the person so admired by Levi Yitzh'hak ? But then, the dates would not fit since Yosef 'Harif died in 1784 and Rabbi Levi Yitz'hak of Berditchev arrived in Berditchev only a year later... The Yosef I am trying to identify must also have died before 1809, year of the death of Rabbi Levi Yitz'hak of Berditchev, thus eliminating as a candidate Yaakov Yosef Halperin, the son of Israel Zalmanov, who died much later, in 1867.
Any idea to try and solve this mystery ?
If you do have some ideas or explanations, then thanks a lot for your kind help !
Sincerely,
Daniel Halperin, Geneva, Switzerland
