Name: tannerfamily -- Tanner Family Genealogy

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Augusta Leonora Mathilde Herschel: Birth: 01 AUG 1880 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway. Death: 26 FEB 1948 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

  2. Alf Herschel: Birth: 19 OCT 1887 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway. Death: 27 MAY 1959 in At Sea on the"Stavangerfjord"one day out from Norway

  3. Anna Herschel: Birth: 23 NOV 1891 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway. Death: 01 JUL 1978 in Sogndal, Norway

  4. Agnes Herschel: Birth: 1894. Death: 24 MAR 1972 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

  5. Karl Herschel: Birth: 17 MAR 1897 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway. Death: 06 NOV 1911 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

  6. Mossa Herschel: Birth: 1902. Death: 1932


Sources
1. Title:   Norway, Select Baptisms, 1634-1927
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.Original data - Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.Original data: Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.;
2. Title:   Jodenes Historie I Norge -- gjennom 300 ar
Author:   Mendelsohn, Oskar
Publication:   Name: Universitetsforlaget 1969;
3. Title:   1875-tellingen for Bergen
Author:   Digitalarkivet
4. Title:   Notes of Alf Herschel Jr
5. Title:   Census for Bergen, Norway, 1891
Publication:   Name: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe;
6. Title:   Tax Card Index of the Hamburg Jewish Community
Publication:   Name: Hamburger Gesellschaft fur judische Genealogie e.V.;
7. Title:   Marriages in Bergen 1816-1911
Author:   Digitalarkivet
Publication:   Name: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no;
8. Title:   Census for Bergen, Norway, 1891
Publication:   Name: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe;
9. Title:   Marriages in Bergen 1816-1911
Author:   Digitalarkivet
Publication:   Name: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no;
10. Title:   Døde i Bergen 1912-1972
Page:   Post 6208 av 81892 totalt i databasen, Løpenummer 321.
Author:   Digitalarkivet.
11. Title:   Marriages in Bergen 1816-1911
Page:   Post 31203-31208 av 32724 totalt i databasen
Author:   Digitalarkivet
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Notes
a. Note:   According to notes from Alf Herschel Jr. and family letters, Leon Herschel was a wholesaler for a Goteburg, Sweden firm in motor boats and sewing machines. He spoke 8 languages, was an Edsvoren court translator and taught Christian Michelson the German language. (Christian Michelson was a shipping magnate and politician from Bergen, who was the first Prime Minister of Norway at the time of the country's independence in 1905.) According to the 1891 census of Bergen, Norway, he was born in 1855 but Uncle Alf's notes (obtained mostly firsthand from relatives who knew the individuals) he was born in 1857. Interesting Relative: One of Leon and Mathilde’s granddaughters was Torberg Nedreaas, the famous Norwegian author. Torborg Nedreaas (1906-1987), was a Bergen writer who ranks among the most popular and widely read Norwegian novelists of the 20th century. She adopted a feminist approach long before feminism was re-discovered about 1970. She hated Fascism and oppression, and in her short stories she defended the young girls who were despised for consorting with German soldiers. In the novel Av måneskinn gror det ingenting (Nothing grows out of moonlight, 1947), she showed how blind love leads a young girl into degradation and despair. Her main work, however, is a series of short stories and novels about a girl growing up in Bergen in the years around the First World War, in a middle-class family situated between luxury homes on the one hand and poor tenement houses on the other. The titles are Trylleglasset (The magic glass, 1950), Stoppested (Stopping places, 1953), Musikk fra en blå brønn (Music from a blue well, 1960) and Ved neste nymåne (At the next new moon, 1971). Although these are works of fiction, there are many similarities between Torberg and the young girl featured in the stories. The young girl has an aunt who paints historic scenes of Norway and sells them (in real life this would be Erikka Hansen, her grandmother’s sister), a grandfather who was a famous translator, and a mother who complains about her Jewish ancestors who shunned her family and did nothing good for her other than to teach her to cook a few delicious traditional Jewish meals. According to an interview with Torberg in the magazine Vinduet (and translated from Norwegian): "-Where did your family come from?" "-Oh, from various places. Mainly from Øygarden on the outskirts of Bergen. But one part of my mother’s family came from Galicia, a border area between Poland and Ukraina, in the heart of Russia at that time, in the 1840s, when my great-grandfather came from there. His name was Karl Herschel – Zionist; the Israeli Karl Herschal, as he called himself. A terrible old patriarch [sic] who broke away from his son because he left the synagogue. He was also an author, and published two books: "Om mosebøkene" and "Den brennende tornebusk", which he meant proved God’s existence. They have them at the library in Bergen. And then he corresponded with Bjørnson about the Dreyfus affair. But then there was this son who didn’t want to observe the Sabbath, this Leon Herschel, my grandfather, he went steady with a hat seamstress in Bergen, Mathilde Hansen, who he did not marry before she had given birth to three children. Her mother was wet nurse [sic] for Eva Sars, she who later married Fridtjof Nansen. She could say – Lise Hansen’s stories are cultural history in the Sars family."

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