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Using modern scholarship, which has largely disproven a good deal of the earlier genealogies of the Maharal, we now have Chaim of Issenheim as the maternal grandfather of MaHaRaL of Prague - המהר״ל מפראג, rather than the paternal grandfather (who is a different Chaim).
See A. Putik and D. Polakovic (2009) 'Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Called Maharal * A study on his genealogy and biography', in P. Demetz (ed) Path of Life. Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel ca. 1525*1609, Academia, Prague, pp29-83.
Now the task should be to review the sources for the ancestry of Chaim of Issenheim. Can we add some sources to the profiles? It seems a bit like someone just invented a line going back. Is there any truth to it?
I think it is time to sever his ancestry, the ben Bezalel etc. It looks all invented to me. Yigal Burstein is there any source for any of it? if not, let's cut it, and then if someone comes up with something we can always add to it.
To be clear, I am proposing to sever the Maharal's maternal grandfather Chaim from his father.
Chaim Issenheim, [Maharal Mat-Gd.father]
Everyone wants to know who they are related to.....nobody wants Geni to show a relationship if it does not exist. but ......when you cut someone off you have a responsibility working and representing Geni to make sure it is 100% correct. Not I am not sure I do not know for sure so I will cut this off.....that mentality is not fair.
To be related to HOLY Rabbi's mean more to some then to others ....so please be careful.
It is easy to add false relatives, much harder to prove they aren't correct. But if no one can find a source, that's a pretty good clue that there is none. MaHaRaL of Prague - המהר״ל מפראג
I agree that on historically important lines, it is up to the original record creator, or one of the managers (in this instance there are dozens) , or the curator to produce a solid factual source foundation (or a reasonable hypothesis based on actual facts) if requested. Otherwise, what we have is a house of cards. If any person wants to continue to adhere to an unsubstantiated genealogy then that is their right, but for a public document such as this, individual emotional attachments to what may be a false narrative should not outweigh the interests of other researchers who may be denied a factually accurate connection.
Cut it if unproven (sourced).
*descendant of the MaHaRal and his elder brother Sinai:
13th great-gradfather: https://www.geni.com/path/Peter-Rohel-c+is+related+to+Rabbi-Yehuda-...
13th great-gradfather: https://www.geni.com/path/Peter-Rohel-c+is+related+to+Rabbi-Sinai-b...
Please I would like to know, if Chaim Issenheimer, was from Issenheim, a small town of about 3.500 inhabitants in Alsace, France.
I visited this town in 2012, and saw the very old synagogue from outside.
I was informed that still very few jews live in the town.
I was interested because genealogy.
Shalom to all
Simon Keller
Joseph Michael Notovitz and Private User, if you read Putik's 2009 article, pages 42-47, you see at the end, that he suggests a solution that the Maharal's mother is the brother of the Maharal's uncle Jacob of Worms, whose father was Hayyim of Issenheim.
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