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Alex Rosenstein family, A. J. Rosenstein (1860 to 1890s)
Heiligengeiststraße 39
Lüneburg
Alex Rosenstein family (1890s)
Alex (Alexander Zvi) Rosenstein was born in Hitzacker, east of Lüneburg, in 1820. He was the son of Isaak Joel Rosenstein and his wife Sara née Moses. Like his father, he became a tradesman. Until 1859, he lived in Hitzacker where he became a citizen in 1844.
Around 1860, Alex Rosenstein and his first wife Hannchen, née Cohen moved to Lüneburg. Alex established a produce store. He bought a house at Heiligengeiststraße 39, where the Jewish community also met for prayer in the following years. In the 1880s, Rosenstein was chairman and treasurer of the Lüneburg Jewish community.
Alex and Hannchen Rosenstein had four children, three of whom were born in Hitzacker. In March 1865, when their youngest child Fanny was four years old, Hannchen Rosenstein died of typhoid fever in Lüneburg.
At the end of the year, Alex married again. His second wife was Caroline Lefeld. Together they had their daughter Emma in 1867.
When Caroline Rosenstein died in 1894, Alex became a widower, again. He died in 1898. Like his wives Hannchen and Caroline before him, Alexander J. Rosenstein was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Lüneburg.
Sources and info (in German):
Gravestone for Alexander Rosenstein: epidat - Forschungsplattform jüdische Grabsteinepigraphik, Lüneburg, lbg-1002
Beate L. Weiland, Jüdische Friedhöfe in Nordostniedersachsen, Eintrag "Hitzacker" in: Erich Woehlkens/Lisa Kuhlmann/Beate L. Weiland, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Juden in Uelzen und in Nordostniedersachsen, Oldenburg 1996, pp. 354-364, see pp. 355-356
Name variants: Alexander Isaak Zvi A.J. A.I.