Judelman Family Tree

Descendants of Isaac Yudelman

Isaac Yudelman was born in Skud, Lithuania in 1850 and came to South Africa in 1899 with his 2 sons, Israel (age 19) and Joe (called Yudel, age 17). Isaac had married Etty Duchen, and there is no record of when she and their daughters, Tilly, Olga (called Alta) and […]

Isaac Yudelman
יצחק יודלמן

January 17, 2017 in Descendants of Isaac Yudelman by family

Olga Yudelman was born in Skud Lithuania in 1886. She was known by many names; Olga, Judith, Alta, Yehudis. When she immigrated to South Africa, she was given the task of protecting a ‘Torah’ which was destined for the Plumstead Shule. On the 1st March 1910, Olga married Hyman Chaim […]

Olga (Alta) Yudelman
אולגה אלטה יודלמן

January 11, 2017 in Descendants of Isaac Yudelman / Olga Wolfsohn by family

When Israel arrived in Cape town they settled in Maitland. In a horse and cart they travelled down the Peninsula to Simonstown surveying locations where they could set up a business. They then went to Plumstead, and persuaded a fellow who was making, bottling and selling vinegar, to move his […]

Israel Yudelman
ישראל יודלמן

January 11, 2017 in Descendants of Isaac Yudelman by family

Solly travelled from Latvia to South Africa when still a boy in around 1900. He set up a general store in Johannesburg and eventually set up a liquor store right in the heart of Hillbrow, Johannesburg, known as Burke’s bottle store. He and Tilly lived at Circle court in Johannesburg

Tilly and Solly Duchen

January 11, 2017 in Descendants of Isaac Yudelman by family

Judel Joe Yudelman came to SA in 1904. He worked in the family business in Plumstead with his father and his brother, Israel. In 1947 Judel retired and then devoted himself to his family and various interests. Living in Muizenberg, a popular seaside resort, meant lots of visitors during the […]

Yudel Joe Yudelman
יודל יודלמן

January 11, 2017 in Descendants of Isaac Yudelman by family

Rene` was born in Johannesburg, on the 17th March, 1918, to Jack and Marion Miller-nee Green. She and her five siblings grew up on a farm near Ladybrand, in the Free State. They were schooled in Ladybrand. She then went to Wits, where she became a teacher. She met and […]

Harry Wolfsohn
צבי משה וולפסון

January 11, 2017 in Descendants of Isaac Yudelman / Olga Wolfsohn by family

Ethel Wolfsohn was born on the 8th August, 1912 in Cape Town to Olga Wolfsohn (Yudelman) and Hyman Chaim Wolfsohn. After completing her schooling, Ethel studied and taught music. She met and married Gabriel Peimer on the 21st March, 1941 at the Muizenberg Hebrew Congregation. Gabriel was the eldest son […]

Ethel Peimer (Wolfsohn)
אסתר פיימר – וולפסון

January 11, 2017 in Descendants of Isaac Yudelman / Olga Wolfsohn by family

Isaac Wolfsohn was a brilliant man, revered by those who knew him and those who knew of him. He graduated as a doctor at the University of Cape Town (after being lured away from the “law” application line… he would have been a judge he always said) He was a […]

Isaac Wolfsohn
יצחק וולפסון

January 11, 2017 in Descendants of Isaac Yudelman / Olga Wolfsohn by family

Leo, was born in Johannesburg in 1928 and was rather precocious, going to Wits University to study medicine when still very young. He met, Myra Tannenbaum, through her brother Arnold, with whom he was at school. They were married in 1951, when Myra was just 19, and Michael was born […]

Leo Duchen

January 11, 2017 in Descendants of Isaac Yudelman by family

Ancy Michaelowsky was the daughter of Isaac Yudelman with his second wife, Chiah Sive. Ancy married Elia Michaelowsky on 12 January 1927. They had two sons Isaac and Aubrey.

Ancy (Nancy) Michaelowsky (Judelman)

January 10, 2017 in Descendants of Isaac Yudelman by family