Amson Solomon was born in Oberndorf and moved to Creglingen where his children were all born. His parents were Solomon Abraham (probably from Oberndorf) Tavis Einstein of Buttenwiesen or Bodenmeiss.
The links to trees for Solomon Abraham, Tavis Einstein and Amson Salomon all go to the same tree.
Amson Solomon's children used two different surnames. Some used the suname Amson and others used the surname Oberndoerfer (Oberndorfer, Oberndörfer).
Both of Lazer Jacob's sons, Raphael and Isaak took the surname Blumenfeld. There is a story about the Blumenfeld family that the family originated from Italian Catholics named Florio de Campo who moved to Germany and converted to Judaism. This story is almost certainly not true.
My ancestors in Creglingen married into families from nearby towns. Raphael Lazarus Blumenfeld's wife, Judle Moses, was from Welbhausen (possible Walbhausen or Ebbighausen). Jacob Amson Oberndoerfer and his wife Guthrah Raphael's son Salomon Oberndoerfer married Fanny (Fredel) Kellerman from Fuchsstadt. Their son Max Oberndoerfer married Pauline Pressburger of Rexingen. All of these families lived in Creglingen.
Arthur Obermayer, obermayer@alum.mit.edu, is also a descendant of the Blumenfeld and Oberndoerfer families. He is also researching the Crailsheimer, Kalb, Sinsheiner, Strauss and Weisenbrunner families in Creglingen.
Map illistrating the farthest of the three possible locations for Oberndorf and Creglingen. Oberndorf is the indicated by the red star. Creglingen can be found to its left. This map was created using Shtetl Seeker a service of Jewish Gen.
Pinkas Hakehillot: Germany: Wuerttemberg, Hohenzollern, Baden edited by Joseph Walk. Published in 1986 by Yad Vashem. 549 pages. (This book is an encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany. It is one volume of a larger set.) This book is entirely in Hebrew, but it has an English Table of Contents. It is available through Yad Vashem. The community of Creglingen is discussed on pages 122-24.
Lebenswege Creglinger Juden Das Pogrom von 1933: Der Schwierige Umgang mit der Vergangenheit by Dr. Gerhard Naser. It was published in 1999 by Verlag und Offsetdruck Eppe GmbH. ISBN 3-89089-057-1. The book is entirely in German and has many pictures. It deals primarily with events in the 20th century.
Von Leben und Sterben: Juden in Creglingen by Hartwig Behr and Horst F. Rupp. Second edition published in 2001 by Koenigshausen & Neumann, Wuerzburg. ISBN 3-8260-2226-2. The book is entirely in German and has many pictures; it is a history of the town from 1532 to 1930s.
If you have any information about the jewish community in this town or have ancestors with the same surname, please contact me.
