Hitsel Goldschmidt

This is a bit of a tangle: Because of a slip by Ettlinger on this sheet: <1084600BD1DD4C579C64371D0C47D49B.png> where he adds “Kleve” to the name of Jacob (HO 1672) bn Jacob Behrens Cohen Hannover (his mother was a Kleve, which is the cause of this slip, but he was never called Kleve himself), there followed several wrong turns. This is not surprising since there were three generations in which Suesses and Sarahs and Simelies, mosly of the Kleve-Emmerich-Gomperz family, got involved.

Anyway, this man: Geni - Jakob Kann (Hannover-Kleve) (who is not a Kann at all) is the same person as this man: Geni - Jacob Cohen (1697-1716) and Hitsel is his daughter (possibly his only child).

His wife Sara/Serle Schiff (correctly shown on Hitsel’s E.T. sheet) is the Sore shown as child F on her father’s sheet: <027C8634CB6E4D1DB1447947029E090E.png> and the “Cosmus” whom she married in 1717, after Jacob’s death, is this man: Geni - (Moses) Kosman Loeb Levin Gomperz (c.1686-1762)- Doesburg whose wife is shown on Geni as Suesse, whereas she is really Sara. This was an error in Dietz, where he reversed the two sisters.

Suesse, on the other hand (child D) was apparently only ever married to Meir (bn) Behrend Salomon Cohen. Meir was AB”D in Hannover after founding the Klaus in Hamburg. His gravestone is transcribed on page 45 of the Hebrew gravestone-and-Memorbuch section of Gronemann: (Abraham) Meir k”Ts, born in Hamburg, Rabbi of our congregation and son of mvhr”r Issachar Beer Cohen zTs”l of Hamburg.

Suesse died before he became AB”D of Hannover and is buried in Hamburg Datenbank: Jüdische Grabsteinepigraphik (steinheim-institut.de) After Suesse’s death Rabbi Meir married Telze bt Wolf Wertheimer: Geni - Tolza Cohen (Wertheimer) (b. - 1814) but this death year is very problematic and the correct entry should be this one: Geni - Toltze Wolf Cohen (Wertheimer) (b. - 1789)- Amersfoort. It is important to note that Rabbi Meir’s brother Seligman was married to a daughter of Samson Wertheimer (Hanna Miriam) but Meir’s wife Tolze Wertheimer was a granddaughter of Samson.

In any case, the Suesse-Sara swap is also reflected on this entry for Rabbi Meir Geni - Meyer Berend Cohen (b. - 1758) where Suesse is the real first wife and Sara belongs elsewhere (as above) and is not a child of Rabbi Tewele Schiff of London, whose grandfather was the correct Sara’s brother (child A on the E. T. sheet for Moses Schiff above). In fact, she is actually listed in Ele Toldot, although for obvious reasons, Ettlinger did not connect her with her father: <2BA267BF13054744A05BFBF7F9203D9F.png> The Memorbuch entry is worded so that it appears Moses Schiff was of Amsterdam [his father lived there for awhile and Moses may even have been born there, but this should not have warranted calling him “of Amsterdam], but in fact it was only Kosman Kleve who lived there - and even in his case, he had only moved to Amsterdam from Kleve in about 1750 when he suffered business reversals and had to leave Kleve.