Heilprin ( he, היילפרין) is a

Jewish surname Jewish surnames are family names used by Jews and those of Jewish origin. Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. Jews have ...

with many variants.

Origins

Some people with the name derive it from the town of Heilbronn,

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. "Heilbronn" means "healing well". Besides the numerous Heilbrons, Heilbronners, Heilpruns, and Heilbruns who are known to have lived between the middle of the 16th century and the present time, there are four distinct branches of the Heilprin family. The progenitor of the oldest of these was Zebulun Eliezer (b. 1541), whose son, Moses of Brest-Litovsk, was a brother-in-law of Samuel Edels (Eideles) (died 1632). The

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of another branch, which includes several rabbis and prominent leaders of communities and of the Council of Four Lands, is as follows: The genealogy of a third branch is that made by Belinson of the family of

Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin ( he, יחיאל היילפרין; c. 1660 – c. 1746) was a Lithuanian rabbi, kabalist, and chronicler. Biography He was a descendant of Solomon Luria, and traced his genealogy back through Rashi to the tanna Johan ...

, who went from

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in 1821 to Odessa, where he was dayyan until 1835; he then succeeded Reuben Hardenstein in the rabbinate of Odessa, which Heilprin held until his death, January 13, 1877. The places following the names in the following family tree denote in most instances the rabbinates. The fourth branch is that of Jehiel ben Solomon ben Jekuthiel of

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, author of "''Seder ha-Dorot''", whose son Moses succeeded him in the rabbinate and whose grandson, Löb b. Isaac, published his work. Jehiel was probably related to the third branch of the Heilprin family. A large number of the Heilprins now living in

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claim descent from Jehiel. Phineas Mendel, father of Michael Heilprin, was also probably descended from one of the several prominent Heilprins who lived in his native city, Lublin. Heilprins are to be found in almost all

Ashkenazic Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...

communities, but they are not necessarily of the same family, since most of the family names borne by the Jews of

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, Germany, and eastern Europe were assumed indiscriminately by order of their respective governments toward the end of the 18th century or at the beginning of the 19th.

People with the surname Heilprin

Angelo Heilprin Angelo Heilprin (March 31, 1853 – July 17, 1907) was an American geologist, paleontologist, naturalist, and explorer. He is mostly known for the part he took into the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892 and for his observations and ...

(1853–1907), Hungarian-American naturalist, geologist, and traveler; son of Michael Heilprin * Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin (1902–1968), Israeli physician *

Elchanan Heilprin Elchanan Halpern (December 26, 1921 – February 18, 2015) was the Rabbi of the Golders Green neighbourhood of London and President of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations. He was also known as the Av Beit Din of Radomishl after the town of ...

(1921–2015), rabbi *

(ca. 1660 – ca. 1746), Lithuanian rabbi, kabalist, and chronicler *

Louis Heilprin Louis Heilprin (1851–1912) was a Hungarian American author, historian, and encyclopedia editor. He was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1851. His father, Michael, son of Phineas Mendel, was also an encyclopedist and scholar of Hebrew history and ...

(1851–1912), Hungarian-American encyclopedist; son of Michael Heilprin *

Louis Heilprin Pollak Louis Heilprin Pollak (December 7, 1922 – May 8, 2012) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He served on the faculty of Yale Law School and was dean from 1965 to 1970, ...

(1922–2012), United States District Judge and dean of

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and the

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; great-grandson of Michael Heilprin * Michael Heilprin (1823–1888), Polish-Hungarian Jewish biblical scholar, critic, and writer, father of Angelo and Louis * Phineas Mendel Heilprin (1801–1863), Polish-Hungarian-US Hebraist; father of Michael Heilprin, grandfather of Louis and Angelo * Walter Heilprin Pollak (1887–1940), American civil liberties lawyer; grandson of Michael Heilprin, father of Louis Heilprin Pollak * Uriel Heilperin, better known under his pen name

Yonatan Ratosh Yonatan Ratosh () was the literary pseudonym of Uriel Shelach ( he, אוריאל שלח) (November 18, 1908 – March 25, 1981), an Israeli poet and journalist who founded the Canaanite movement. Biography Uriel Heilperin (later Shelach) was ...

(1908–1981), Israeli poet, leader of the Canaanite movement

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Origins

People with the surname Heilprin

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