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Descendants of FEIFAS

Generation No. 1

      1. FEIFAS¹

Notes for FEIFAS:
      "These are the words of Joseph of Jerusalem, son of Menahem, son of Isak, son of Joseph, son of Eisig, son of Feifass of Neustadt on the Waldnaab, Bavaria. Eisig and his brother Nathan, together with two others, Hirsch and Enoch, sons of Meyer, settled with their families in Floss, Bavaria, where they founded the congregation Adas Yeshurun. They had been expelled from Neustadt, a neighboring town, whose Jewish inhabitants were descended from a group that had some centuries before been expelled from Landshut, Bavaria."
      The above words were written by Srah Kussy, who continued: "Since the only recorded expulsions of Jews from Landshut took place in 1337 and 1359 during the Black Plague epidemics, the cause of which was attributed to the Jews, who were accused of having poisoned the wells, this must be the expulsion to which Rabbi Joseph Schwarz refers. His statement regarding the settlement of his ancestors at Floss is verified in a chronicle of Floss by Joseph Adelmar Lindner of Sulzbach, who wrote in 1855:
      "In the year 1684 Count Von Sagan demanded tribute money from the Jews of Neustadt, to an amount beyond their capacity to pay. Failing to comply, their expulsion followed. Four families from amongs them were given permission by Duke Christian August to settle in Floss."
      Sarah: "The above sources and the genealogy of the Schwarz family which follows, I translated from a German copy of the genealogical chart prepared and given to me by the late Jacob Hirschinger of Munich, a scholarly grandson of my mother's cousin, Rabbi Israel Schwarz, of Cologne"
      This information is reaffirmed by Renate Hopfinger's work, "Die Judengemeinde von Floss, 1694-1942"


Children of FEIFAS are:

NATHAN² FEIFAS.

Notes for NATHAN FEIFAS:
Already 1719, Nathan Feyfas was the first Flosser Jew in Sulzbacher Regierund to get permission to become a distiller (Branntwein zu brennen). On the basis of this permission and his age, and, in the same year in contrast to his Flosser fellow-believers no trade-district was assigned to him.
Hopfinger

ii.

EISIG FEIFAS.

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