FAMILY HISTORY - By Lore Confino
The family Jacobi have had an interesting history which can be dated back to the mid 18th century. The Rhine Palatinate, where the family had settled for some generations, had been taken over by France in 1801. The Jews resident there, were up to that time known by their first names only until, in 1808, they had to acquire and register family names by edict of Napoleon. My great-great-grandfather, Isaak ben Jakob, born in 1768 in Gruenstadt, chose the family name Jakobi, spelled initally with K but in time, the K was changed to C...Click here to continue reading Lore's history of the Jacobi family
Jacob JacobiBorn: 1734
Isaac Jacobi Born: 1768Jacob Jacobi Died: 1780
Isaac Jacobi Died: 1819
Bernhard Jacobi Born: 1807Bernhard Jacobi Died: 1863
Henrietta Hess Born: 1840Henrietta Hess Died: 1913
Isaak Jacobi Born: 1837
Sophie Siegel Born 1849
Isac Ermann Born 1859Isac Ermann Died 1942
Sara Elsaesser Born 1869Sara Elsaesser Died 1944
Sophie Siegel Died: 1935
Isaac Jacobi Died: 1893
Fritz JacobiBorn: 1877
Fritz Jacobi
Died: 1939
Died: 1939
Oswald Jacobi Born: 1922Oswald Jacobi Died: 1942?
Lore JacobiBorn: 1923
Lore Jacobi
Died: 2007
Died: 2007
Nissim Confino Born: 1917Nissim Confino Died: 1986
Else Ermann Born: 1893Else Ermann Died: 1932