The website Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen – Jüdische Grabstätten (Jewish cemeteries) provides the first pictures for this history of the Blumenfeld family in Momberg – even if these pictures are “only” pictures of gravestones. My 4^rd great-grandmother, Giedel Blumenfeld, was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Neustadt, where the Jews from Momberg were buried until Momberg opened its own cemetery.¹

Giedel was born around 1754. The names of her parents are not known for certain.² She was married to Abraham Katz, with whom she had six children: Moses (1778-1846), Sprinz (1783-1863), Breine (1784-), Hanna (1788-1844), Meier (1795-1879), and my 3^rd great-grandfather Jakob (1800-1849). She died at age 80 on the 19^th of July 1834.³ (Translation of the Hebrew text below the illustration.)

Here lies
Giedel, the wife of
the honorable Abraham
ha-Kohen. She died
on Sunday, the 13th of Tamus,
and was buried on Monday
in the year [5]694 (= 20 July 1834).
May her soul be bound in the bundle of life [I Samuel 25:29]. Amen.

1. Blumenfeld, Giedel geborene Gerson Moses (1834) – Neustadt (bei Marburg), in: Jüdische Grabstätten, http://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/idrec/sn/juf/id/5281 [5.6.2012]. ↩︎
2. Sterberegister der Juden von Neustadt 1824-1875 (HHStAW Abt. 365 Nr. 630), The entry in the register notes that the names of her parents could not be determined. ↩︎
3. Ibid. ↩︎