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Historical records matching R' Zvi Hirsch Apter, Parnas of Kalisz community
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About R' Zvi Hirsch Apter, Parnas of Kalisz community
R' Zvi Hirsch (Hirschel) Apter, Parnas (President) of the Kalisz community, died about 1704.
Source of Above
The Unbroken Chain - Neil Rosenstein (1990) Volume 1, Chapter 11, page 26, G 8.2
According to Page 153 of the Third Edition, Volume 1, his father, R' Yaakov (Jacob) Katzenellenbogen, in the previous 2 versions has only one son, R' Pinchas. Dr. Rosenstein states that there is no validity to the Samuel and Vahl family of England being descendants of this branch of the Katzenellenbogen family as was originally recorded in the first two editions of this book, based on the work of R' Zvi Hirsch Edelmann of London, Gddulat Shaul, 1854. Some descendants are connected through marriage with other Katzenellenbogen branches. This was discussed in depth in Avotaynu, XIV, Summer 1998, The Edelman Hoax, 25-31 by Neil Rosenstein and Dov Weber.
Malcolm H. Stern's Americans of Jewish Descent, also records the same incorrect information as do many other publications (all based on the claims of Zvi Hirsch Edelmann).
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