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Manasses of Rockenhausen

Manasses, possibly son of Daniel¹, was living in Rockenhausen by at least 1722² and had children: Daniel, Gabriel, and Raphael.

Daniel Manasses (patronymic name), became a Schutzjude (protected Jew) in Rockenhausen in 1745, married Friedgen Alexander³, and had at least one son, Manasses (1759).

Manasses Daniel "Daniel" lived in Rockenhausen and adopted the surname KAHNWEILER. He married Hanne and had children: Sara, Johanetta (1784), and Barbara (1788). He later married Judith Jacob and had children: Daniel (1799), Benedict (1801), Hirsch (1804), unknown, Mendel (1808), Gertrude (1810), Babette (1812), and Simon (1820). Daniel died in 1820.

Gabriel Manasses became a Schutzjude in Rockenhausen in 1744. He had a daughter, Rosa.⁴

Rosa "Rosina" Gabriel married Mendel David "David" LIEBHOLD and had children: Nathan (1773), Manasses (1779), Sara (1783), and Ottilie (1793).

Raphael Manasses married Goele Salomon and had children: Salomon (1756), Manasses, and Reichel (1759).

Salomon Raphael, born in Dörnbach, married Marguerite Jacob, lived in Dielkirchen, and had children: Raphael (1789), Schele (1791), Fratge (1801), and Esther (1804). In 1808, the family adopted the surname GUTMANN. Salomon died in Dielkirchen in 1814.
Manasses Raphael married Githel "Judith", lived in Rockenhausen, and adopted the surname GOTTLIEB.
Reichel Raphael married Gabriel Nathan and lived in Dörnbach. Both died prior to the surname adoptions, but their sons adopted the surname BECKER.

Research Notes

1. A 1684 list of heads of household in Rockenhausen includes two Jews: Samuel and Daniel. Given the very small size of the Jewish community there (by 1785, there were still only four Jewish families in Rockenhausen) and the propagation of the name Daniel in the family, the latter was likely an ancestor (father or grandfather of Manasses). Kukatzki, Bernhard. Steinerne Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in der Verbandsgemeinde Rockenhausen. Landau: 2000. p. 23.
2. Berthold Rosenthal collection (reel 8, frame 624)
3. Kahnweiler Family History (reel 1, frame 4)
4. Baer, Ralph N. The Family Trees of a Few Jewish Families from Western Germany. "Liebhold (Liepold, etc.) Family of Rockenhausen, Pfalz". 1999. (digitized version, frames 32-34)