This material was kindly provided by Rachel Unkefer, with thanks to Lars Menk for translation from German to English. You can see Rachel's Leiser family history on this site.
The text below is an abstract of the article. It deals only with families originating in the small town of Hoppstaedten, which is near Birkenfeld, which was sometimes part of France and other times part of the Principality of Oldenburg. If you have a German map, you can find it just east of Trier, on the Nahe River.
For a family tree diagram based on this article, and an explanation of patronymics, see the Family Tree of Sender LAZARUS/LEYSER.
The article is called: "Zur Stammbaumforschung"
Author: A. Lewin, Hoppstaedten
In: Judische Familien-Forschung, Marz 1928, Jahrgang (vol.) IV, Nr. 1 or Nr. 13 of all issues, Berlin, pp. 23 - 26
Lewin was a religion teacher in Hoppstaedten during the 1920s. As an example for Jewish gnealogical research he produces the family history of Sender Lazarus.
Lazarus (Leyser), b. abt. 1660 (in Hoppstaedten?), died before ca. 1712
Sender (Alexander, Zander, or Sander) Lazarus was born in Hoppstaedten in ca. 1692 & died there in 1756. He was married to Sara. He possessed a house in Hoppstaedten.
Sons:
- Leyser Sender (ca. 1712 - 1781), m. Traud bat Laemmle
- Schlaumen (Salomo) Sender, b. abt. 1715
- Moses Sender
- David Sender
Children of Leyser Sender:
- Deile Leyser, m. Meier Isaak (Kronenberger), 1765
- Hendel Leyser, m. Gronem Mendel (Goldschmitt)
- Model Leyser
Children of Schlaumen (Salomon) Sender:
- Leiser Schlaumen = STERN (1744-1823), m. Mirjam Mendel from Hoppstaedten
- Sender Schlaumen = Alexander STERN senior (1762-1821), m. Mirjam Isaac from Nahbollenbach near Oberstein
Leiser & Sender Schlaumen adopted the family name STERN on Oct 19, 1808.
Son of Alexander Stern:
- Moses Stern (1797-1861), m. Dorothea Elias from Idar
his son:
- Jakob Stern, m. Gudela STEINFELS
his son:
- Maier Stern (d. 1927), m. Fanny ERMANN
The rest of the article tells how A. Lewin has found the information for this family history, from the vital statistics after 1799, the declration of names from 1808, then back in time from regional archives & state archives in Koblenz, Darmstadt, Speyer, Oldenburg, Munich, Karlsruhe.
That's all the information included in the article.
Additional information you can find in the autobiography of Dr. Friedrich L. Kronenberger (Erinnerungen und Betrachtungen, Birkenfeld, 1986 - to be ordered: Kreisvolkshochschule Birkenfeld, Schlossallee, D-55765 Birkenfeld):
Meier Isaak KRONENBERGER came from Windesheim near Bad Kreuznach to Hoppstaedten. He named his son after his wife Deile Leyser's father, Leiser Meier Kronenberger. Leiser Kronenberger was married to a woman from the family WEIL. They had a ten or eleven children - one of them emigrated to the USA (his son Louis Kronberger was an author), another was Samuel (Sanwel) Kronenberger (b. ca. 1848) who married Male (Amalie) WEILER from Steinbach am Glan. They had four sons, among them Lazarus Kronenberger who became a banker in Mainz & Aron Kronberger, cattle dealer in Hoppstaedten, who was married to ...
Bamberger (b. 1876, Hirschhorn / Neckar), the father of Friedrich K. (b. June 14, 1900, in Hoppstaedten)
Here's a list of families or individuals who have lived in Hoppstaedten till 1850:
Einhorn (1842, from Diespeck / Bavaria), Frank (1817), Gerber (1817), Goldschmidt, Hecht (1845, from Nordheim / Bavaria), Hirsch (1817), Kronenberg/-er, Leiser (1817), Richard (1817), Schiffmann (1817; Isaak Schiffman emigrated to the USA & became wealthy. He donated a large amount of money for the building of the synagogue in Hoppstaedten.), Steinfels (1817), Stern, Wechsler (1841, from Bavaria), Weil (1817)
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