For clarification sake, Both of Yehudi’s sisters were married to Jewish men. Hephtzibah was married to Richard Hauser. He was a Jew turned Quaker. She had one child with him and two with her former non Jewish husband. Yalta was married to Benjamin (Rosenberg) Rolfe. They had two children.
Moshe and Marutha tried to break up both these marriages. Seems they didn’t want more Jews in the family.
"Born in the Crimea on January 7, 1896, Marutha Sher was the only one of seven siblings to survive beyond infancy. Her family belonged to the Karaite (Scripturalist) sect, a tiny group of Jewish fundamentalists who were reputed by some scholars to have once been Christians who converted en masse to Judaism. Marutha grew up to be a woman of stunning beauty with blonde hair and striking blue eyes, [how can we trust this, she was a brunette] which lent credence to the suggestion that she might have been of Tartar or Circassian ancestry. Some attributed the streak of fierceness in her personality to this possible ancestry.
To escape the anti-Jewish pogroms of tsarist Russia, Marutha was taken by her mother Sarah Sher to Palestine in 1904. Marutha's father Nahum remained in Russia, in effect abandoning his family. Life was difficult in Turkish-ruled Palestine, where the impoverished province's Jews were only a minority of the total population. Eventually Marutha's mother decided that they would leave Palestine and resettle in a safer place, the United States, a country which was to transform Marutha's life. Before they emigrated, Marutha met the charming, intelligent Moshe Mnuchin (who would subsequently change his name to Moshe Menuhin). Some years later, after they both had arrived in New York City, they met again and fell in love."
Pointing out the spiritual end of the Schneerson clan is important.
Alas our Chasidic brothers count any and all grandchildren of a Rebbe as holy,which is clearly absurd.
So too studying grandchildren in the Schneerson clan whose ancestors have not been observant for 2-4generations is an exercise in futility.
Pres Obama is a desc of Jefferson Davis a true statement,what does it prove.?
If one shows that immediate family members behaved in the manner of the Menuhins,there are lessons,but otherwise we all are grand children of great people and it proves nothing in my opinion.
For clarification sake, Both of Yehudi’s sisters were married to Jewish men. Hephtzibah was married to Richard Hauser. He was a Jew turned Quaker. She had one child with him and two with her former non Jewish husband. Yalta was married to Benjamin (Rosenberg) Rolfe. They had two children.
Moshe and Marutha tried to break up both these marriages. Seems they didn’t want more Jews in the family.
Interesting. Was Marutha herself Jewish? Because if she was indeed Karaite, that will explain why Moshe left Israel and his hostility.
So far as I know she was Jewish. In Lionel Rolfes book he claims that she was also a Schneerson descendant. Her maiden name was Scher or Shor/Shur.
But there is this quote from the website: https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/menuhin-marutha-1896-1996
"Born in the Crimea on January 7, 1896, Marutha Sher was the only one of seven siblings to survive beyond infancy. Her family belonged to the Karaite (Scripturalist) sect, a tiny group of Jewish fundamentalists who were reputed by some scholars to have once been Christians who converted en masse to Judaism. Marutha grew up to be a woman of stunning beauty with blonde hair and striking blue eyes, [how can we trust this, she was a brunette] which lent credence to the suggestion that she might have been of Tartar or Circassian ancestry. Some attributed the streak of fierceness in her personality to this possible ancestry.
To escape the anti-Jewish pogroms of tsarist Russia, Marutha was taken by her mother Sarah Sher to Palestine in 1904. Marutha's father Nahum remained in Russia, in effect abandoning his family. Life was difficult in Turkish-ruled Palestine, where the impoverished province's Jews were only a minority of the total population. Eventually Marutha's mother decided that they would leave Palestine and resettle in a safer place, the United States, a country which was to transform Marutha's life. Before they emigrated, Marutha met the charming, intelligent Moshe Mnuchin (who would subsequently change his name to Moshe Menuhin). Some years later, after they both had arrived in New York City, they met again and fell in love."
Pointing out the spiritual end of the Schneerson clan is important.
Alas our Chasidic brothers count any and all grandchildren of a Rebbe as holy,which is clearly absurd.
So too studying grandchildren in the Schneerson clan whose ancestors have not been observant for 2-4generations is an exercise in futility.
Pres Obama is a desc of Jefferson Davis a true statement,what does it prove.?
If one shows that immediate family members behaved in the manner of the Menuhins,there are lessons,but otherwise we all are grand children of great people and it proves nothing in my opinion.
You can't be indifferent to what Gerard wrote. Forget the rest.