Heilprin ( he, היילפרין) is a Jewish surname with many variants.

Origins

Some people with the name derive it from the town of

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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 Brody in 1821 to

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, 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 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 Johanan ...

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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 Michael Heilprin ( hu, Heilprin Mihály, 1823 – 1888) was a Polish-American Jewish biblical scholar, critic, and writer, born at Piotrków, Russian Poland, to Jewish parents. His family was distinguished by its knowledge of Hebrew lore as far b ...

, was also probably descended from one of the several prominent Heilprins who lived in his native city,

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. Heilprins are to be found in almost all Ashkenazic 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 (1853–1907), Hungarian-American naturalist, geologist, and traveler; son of Michael Heilprin * Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin (1902–1968), Israeli physician * Elchanan Heilprin (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 li ...

(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 *

(1823–1888), Polish-Hungarian Jewish biblical scholar, critic, and writer, father of Angelo and Louis *

Phineas Mendel Heilprin Phineas Mendel Heilprin (November 1801 in Lublin, Poland – 30 January 1863 in Washington, D.C., United States) was a Jewish scholar. He early settled in Piotrków and subsequently in Tomaszów, where he became a manufacturer and merchant, bu ...

(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

See also

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