Eisfelder Ancestors

Caroline Adlerstein (1815-1858) had two husbands, Samuel Eisfelder (1808-1841) and Sigmund Rosenberg (1815-1865).  Below are scanned images of photographs of miniatures on porcelain.  The originals are in the possession of a distant cousin in Germany.

Samuel Eisfelder

Caroline Adlerstein

Sigmund Rosenberg

Signatures of Samuel Eisfelder, Caroline Adlerstein and her father, Elkan Jacob Adlerstein from a Bamberg City file, circa 1836:

Hebrew Signature of Samuel Eisfelder's mother, Sprinz Eisfelder from a Bamberg file:

The inscription on Caroline's grave in the Jewish Cemetery of Bamberg:

This is thought to be a portrait of Sprinz Eisfelder (thanks to Jane Steinberg):

and this is the grave of her husband, Wolf Eisfelder in Burgpreppach (died March 1832) although the name appears as Wolf Moshe Eisfeld

The middle son of Samuel and Caroline was Jacob Eisfelder (1838-1916), also known as Jakob or Jacques. Here he is, next to his second wife, Emma Esther Wittkower (1854-1941) in a pair of photos thought to date from the time of their marriage in 1873:

The youngest son of Jacob and Emma was Leopold Ludwig Eisfelder, known as Louis (1893-1976).

He is best known for his Cafe established in Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai in 1939, and restablished in the Shanghai Ghetto in 1943. Here is an advertisment for the Cafe Louis that appeared in a Shanghai newspaper in September 1939:. Note that the coffee cup is made up of the letters of Louis.

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