The Boppard family here is not well documented … Its earliest member of relevance to this website is Chaim Hakohen aus Boppard KaZ whose son Simon married Blume Eppstein (HaLev) and from whom the Reis family is descended.
Chaim Hakohen aus Boppard KaZ == N.N. >> Simon (Schimon) aus Boppard KaZ, z. Kessel == Blume Eppstein (HaLevi) >> Gutlin Boppard == Moses Weissenburg, zum Kessel (? – 1522) >> Edel / Udel Weissenberg == Mendlen (Menachem) Lauchheim – Bacharach of Knoblauch (ca. 1535 – 1599)>> Samuel Mendel Bacharach (ca. 1548 – 1628) == Henlen Bloch (ca. 1584 – 1643) >> Edel Bacharach (ca. 1605 – 1668) == Simon Wolf Oppenheim (ca. 1600 – 1664) >> Abraham Oppenheim (1633 – 1693) >> Blume Wohl (ca. 1637 – 1683) >> Rabbi David Oppenheim (1664 – 1736) == Gnendel Behrens-Cohen (ca. 1670 – 1712) >> Sara Oppenheim [er] (ca. 1695 – 1713) == Chaim Jonah Frankel-Teomim >> Magdelene Genendel Frankel-Teomim (1713 – 1778) == Simon Isaac Bondi (1711 – 1773) >> Jonas Bondi (1732 – 1765) == Bella / Belle Schifra >> Clara / Caroline Bondi (1760-1829) == Koppel Loeb of Bamberg >> Moises Loeb / Moritz Reis (1782 – 1855) == Émilie Bickartt (1784 – ) >> Jonas Reis (1809 – 1877) == Marian Samuel (1825 – 1900) >> REIS FAMILY
The daughter of Simon and Blume (Eppstein) aus Boppard KaZ, z. Kessel was Gutlin (born ca.1530). She married Mosche / Moses von Weissenberg, who also held the title “zum Kessel.” Their daughter Edel Weissenberg married Mendlen Isaac Lauchheim – Bacharach. Edel is sometimes written Udel.
The descent from this family to the Reis family is as follows where == is a marriage and >> is a product of that union.
Simon (Schimon) aus Boppard KaZ, z. Kessel also known as Shimon ben Chajim Hakohen. Birthdate: estimated about 1480. Death: October 05, 1531 at Frankfurt am Main, Hessen-Nassau, Preussen. Place of Burial: Battonnstraße Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt am Main. Immediate Family: Son of Chaim Hakohen aus Boppard KaZ and husband of Blume Eppstein (below). The writing on his gravestone reads:
Blume Eppstein (HaLevi) Birthdate about 1500. Death: April 03, 1560, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen-Nassau, Preussen. Place of Burial: Battonnstraße Jewish cemetery, Frankfurt am Main. Immediate Family: Daughter of Joseph (Josel) HaLevi, Eppstein z. “zum schwarzen Ring”, “zum Storch”. Blume was the wife of Simon (Schimon) aus Boppard KaZ, z. Kessel (above). All being the direct ancestors of Moritz Reis. After Simon Boppard died in 1531 Blume married Isaac Ben Moshe Aschaffenburg, Goldschmied.
The gravestone of Bella (Beile-Bejle) Bingen (Boppard), the daughter of the above Simon (Schimon) aus Boppard and Blume (Eppstein). She was the sister of Gutlin (Boppard) Weissenberg and the wife of Süskind Bingen (below). They do not appear to have had children. Bella died on September 13, 1574 at Frankfurt am Main, and was buried at the Battonnstraße Jewish cemetery, Frankfurt am Main.
Süskind Bingen was the husband of the above Bella Boppard. He died on December 08, 1574
Frankfurt am Main. His place of burial: Battonnstraße Jewish cemetery, Frankfurt am Main.
We assume, but we do not know for certain, that this family originated from the town by the same name in Germany. The Jewish Virtual Library website gives this description of that town’s Jewish population’s history:
Some notes on Blume Eppstein. She married Simon Boppard in about 1510 and they had two children: 1. Bella (Beile-Bejle) (Boppard) Bingen and 2. Gutlin(Boppard) Weissenberg. After Simon died in 1531, Blume married Isaac Ben Moshe Aschaffenburg, Goldschmied / Yitzchak ben Moshe Halevi (Eisek Aschaffenburg). He died in 1559. They had no children, that we know of although, he did have some from his first marriage. He is buried in the Battonnstraße Jewish cemetery, Frankfurt am Main (gravestone below). Isaac was a successful linen draper with a business that traded as far as Antwerp. Ice cream parlor??
BOPPARD, town in Coblenz district in Germany. The earliest reference to Jews there dates from the last quarter of the 11th century. In 1179, 13 Jews in Boppard were murdered following a blood libel. In 1196, eight Jews in the town were massacred by Crusaders. Subsequently, the leader of the community, the learned and wealthy R. Hezekiah b. Reuben, managed to secure the protection of the authorities. A Jewish quarter (Judengasse, vicus Judaeorum) is first mentioned in Boppard in 1248 – 50. In 1287, 40 Jews were massacred in Boppard and Oberwesel: others during the Armleder persecutions of 1337 and during the Black Death in 1349. In 1312, Boppard ceased to be a free imperial city and the Jews came under the jurisdiction of the archbishops of Trier . In 1418, all Jews were expelled from the archbishopric. Jews resettled in Boppard in 1532, and by the 1560s numbered approximately 32 families. There were 53 Jews living in Boppard at the beginning of the 19th century, 101 in 1880, 80 in 1895, 108 in 1910, 125 in 1926–27 (out of a total population of 7,000), and 92 in 1933. At this time the community possessed a synagogue, a cemetery, and two charitable institutions. Under the Nazi regime, two-thirds of the Jews managed to leave by 1941. On November 9, 1938 (Kristallnacht), the interior of the synagogue was destroyed, although the building was spared because of its proximity to neighboring buildings. The Torah scrolls, ritual objects, and communal archives were thrown into the street and destroyed. In 1942, the 32 remaining Jews were deported to the East. Three Jews settled in Boppard after World War II but subsequently left.