The mother of Moritz Reis was Chaylia Clara (Caroline) Keila Jonas Bondi (1760 – 1829). Clara married Koppel Kolb of Bamberg and they had the following children: Moritz Kolb (who became Moritz Reis), Isak Kolb; Hanna Loeb; and Jonas Kolb. Because of the Kolb to Reis name change, few if any genealogical databases make the connection from Reis to Kolb and Bondi.
Clara’s father was Jonas Bondi (1732 – 1765) and her mother was Bella / Belle Schifra Spira Oettingen-Levy ( – 1778). Clara (Bondi) Kolb’s grandfather was Simon Isaac Bondi (1711 – 1773) and her grandmother Magdelene Genendel Frankel-Teomim (1713 – 1778). Magdelene’s father was Rabbi Chaim Yona Frankel-Teomim II [Hebrew: הרב הגאון חיים יונה תאומים, II] also known as: “Chajjim” (ca. 1684 – 1727). His wife was Sara Oppenheimer (1695 – 1713) whose father was David Oppenheimer Rabi of Prague.
We can represent the descent to the Reis family from the Frankel-Teomim family in TWO descent lines diagrammatically as follows:
Simeon Teomim-Lemmel >> Moses Ahron Teomim (ca. 1521 – 1568) == Rivkah / Rebecca Horowitz (? – 1572) >> Rabbi Yishaiah / Yeshia / Isaiah Teomim (ca. 1557 – 1638) == Feige Vajdel >> Jonah / Yonah I Frankel-Teomim (1596 – 1669) == Baila / Beila Katzenellenbogen >> Ezekiel Joshua Feivel Teomim (ca. 1637 – ca. 1726) == Pearl Leib Pearl Aryeh Leib Kloisner (ca. 1640 – 1710) >> Chaim Jonah Frankel-Teomim == Sarah Oppenheim >> 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 >> Jonas Reis == Marian Samuel
Simeon Teomim-Lemmel >> Moses Ahron Teomim (ca. 1521 – 1568) == Rivkah / Rebecca Horowitz (? – 1572) >> Samuel Phoebus Feivouch Teomim (ca. 1553 – 1616) == Gertrud Gittel Gotridsh Munk / Munch >> Vögele / Vogele Frankel-Teomim (1585 – 1645) == Avraham de Vienne Halevi-Öttingen / Ettingen (1582 – 1637) >> HaRav Naftali Hirsch / Hertz HaLevi Ettinge, Medico of Przemsyl (ca. 1600 – ?) >> Ha Rosh Abraham Ahron Halevi Lichtenstadt (ca. 1630 – 1702) == Dina Epstein (? – 1697) >> Salomon Levi Öttingen / Ettinge-Levy (1660 – 1712) == Schifra Spira Wedeles >> Bele Öttingen-Levy (1692 – 1773) == Isaac (Jizchak) ben Schimon Bondi 1689 – 1754 >> Simon Isaac Bondi (1711 – 1773) == Magdelene Genendel Frankel-Teomim (1713 – 1778) >> Jonas Bondi (1732 – 1765) == Bella / Belle Schifra >> Clara / Caroline Bondi (1760-1829) == Koppel Loeb of Bamberg >> Moises Loeb / Moritz Reis >> Jonas Reis == Marian Samuel
The fact that Sara (Oppenheim) Frankel Teomim died the year that her daughter Magdalene was born indicates that Sara died in childbirth. She was also very young being only 18 at the time of her death on 22 October, 1713. Her husband, Chaim Yona Frankel-Teomim II, went on to marry Roesel Mirels Fränkel Hebrew: (מירלס) תאומים-השל רייזל and they had several children.
Yosef Te’omim (1727–1792) served as rabbi in Lwów and in Frankfurt an der Oder, and was counted among the most important halakhic authorities in Europe in the eighteenth century. His most famous halakhic work, Peri megadim, was first published in 1772, and ever since has been printed in all large editions of the Shulḥan ‘arukh. His other works include Porat Yosef (1756); a book of rules for understanding the Talmud, Ginat veradim (1767); Rosh Yosef (1794); No‘am megadim (1845); and others.
According to YIVO the Teomims were a wealthy and prominent family that produced rabbis and community leaders in Bohemia, Poland, and Galicia from the end of the sixteenth century. Mosheh Aharon Te’omim of Prague (d. 1609?) was the first to bear the family name. His descendant, Aharon ben Moses Te’omim (d. 1690), was a Czech-Polish rabbinical scholar; born about 1630, probably in Prague, where the Teomim-Fränkel family, from Vienna, had settled.
In 1670 he was called as rabbi to Worms, where he succeeded Moses Samson Bacharach. Prior to this he had been a preacher at Prague where he wrote Mateh Aharon (1678), a commentary on the Haggadah, and Bigde Aharon (1710), a collection of homilies. In 1690 he began serving as rabbi in Kraków, but several months later, while on his way to a meeting of the Council of Four Lands, he was arrested on the orders of a Polish nobleman, and died soon thereafter in Chmielnik on July 8, 1690.
Aryeh Yehudah Leib Te’omim (1727–1831) was appointed at age 88 to serve as rabbi of Brody, and toward the end of his life he published his responsa, Gur Aryeh Yehudah (1827). He supported the study of foreign languages and general education. Indeed, he even delivered a speech in this spirit at the opening ceremony of the modern Jewish school, the Realschule, in Brody in 1818.
Avraham Te’omim (1814–1868) served as rabbi in Zborów and then from 1853 in Buczacz. He was known as one of the most important Torah authorities in Galicia in the mid-nineteenth century; his responsa are collected in Responsa ḥesed le-Avraham (1857). Avraham’s nephew, Mosheh Te’omim (1825–1887), author of Responsa devar Mosheh (1864), served as rabbi in Jaworów and Horodenka in Galicia, and was also a well-known halakhic authority.
The branch of the family which eventually married into the Bondi family, bore the name Fränkl-Te’omim or Te’omim-Fränkl. The first to bear this name was Yonah Fränkl-Te’omim I (1596–1669), who was the rabbi in a number of communities in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and afterward in Vienna and Metz. He is best known for his book Kikayon de-Yonah (1670), on the Talmud and its interpreters. In 1648, because of the Chmielnick pogrom, he fled to Vienna, Nikolsburg (Austria), and finally Metz (Lorraine). He died on the 15th of Nissan, and was buried in the famous Jewish cemetery of Metz. His grandson was Rabbi Baruch Fränkel-Teomim (1760–1828) [See below].
Yonah Fränkl-Te’omim I had a son: ‘Rabbi dr’ Ezekiel Joshua (Yechezkia Yehoshua) Feivel Teomim, A.B.D. Przemysl Hebrew: הגאון המופלג בדורו הרופא רבי יחזקיה [יחזקאל] יהושע פייבל תאומים, אב”ד דק”ק פרעמישלא(מח”ס “פנים מאירות” (ca. 1654 Grodno, Lithuania died – ca. 1726/33 Przemyst, Galicia) who married Pearl Leib (1666 – 1722). She was the daughter Rabbi Aryeh LEIB (Shpolar Zeide) of Krakow who married Jute Fischel (b. about 1620). Ezekiel Joshua was named “Frankel” because he went to Przemysl from France (Metz). They had a son:
Rabbi Chaim Yona Frankel-Teomim, II who married Sara Oppenheim and whose daughter Magdelene Genendel Frankel-Teomim (1713 – 1778) married Simon Isaac Bondi (1711 – 1773).
TE’OMIM-FRÄNKEL, BARUCH BEN DAVID (Baruch Fränkel-Teomim – grandson of the above Yonah Fränkl-Te’omim I) Rabbi at Wisnicz, Austrian Galicia, and at Leipnik, Moravia, during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was famous as a Talmudist, and was the author of Baruk Ṭa’am (Lemberg, 1841), Talmudic dissertations, and of notes to the Mishnah and the Talmud, included in the Lemberg (1862) edition of the former and in the Warsaw (1859-64) edition of the latter. His daughter married Rabbi Chaim Halberstam, the Sanzer Rebbe.
