# Ezra Isseroff (b.1904) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **2x great-grand-uncle · also 5th cousin 6x removed *(2 ancestral lines)*** ![[I500065.jpg|220]] **Born** ~1904 — [[Berdychiv]] **Died** 08/18/1980 — [[Tel Aviv]] **Parents** [[Shimshon Aryeh Iserov (b.1864)]] · [[Soshe Greenberg (b.1869)]] **Spouse** [[Miriam Lapin (b.1905)]] **Children** [[Sarah Isseroff (b.1925)]] · [[Arie Shimshon Isseroff (b.1930)]] **Siblings** [[Nutta Cholodenko Iserov (b.1886)]] · [[Avram Isseroff (b.1888)]] · [[Baila Isseroff (b.1894)]] · [[Yehuda Leib Isseroff (b.1898)]] · [[Simcha Isseroff (b.1900)]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I500065_1.jpg|180]] ![[I500065_2.jpg|180]] ![[I500065_3.jpg|180]] ### How you're related — 2 distinct paths *These are genuinely separate bloodlines (the family intermarried), not the same line counted twice.* - **2x great-grand-uncle** — [[Ezra Isseroff (b.1904)]] → [[Soshe Greenberg (b.1869)]] → [[Yehuda Leib Isseroff (b.1898)]] → [[Hadassah Isseroff (b.1928)]] → [[Chaya Goldfischer (b.1950)]] → [[Avi Bernstein (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] - **5th cousin 6x removed** — [[Ezra Isseroff (b.1904)]] → [[Shimshon Aryeh Iserov (b.1864)]] → [[Yosef Iserov (b.1841)]] → [[Rukhlya Chmelnicky Auerbach (b.1818)]] → [[Udel Horodenker (b.1787)]] → [[Nachman Horodenker (b.1772)]] → [[Simcha Weinberg (b.1750)]] → [[Yechiel Tzvi Horodenker of Krementchik and Tcherin (b.1771)]] → [[Baila (b.1787)]] → [[Rivka Miriam (b.1790)]] → [[Rochel Rosenberg (b.1825)]] → [[Maryim Rivka Perlman (b.1845)]] → [[Sura Yuta Reiter (b.1855)]] → [[Shalom Goldfischer (b.1878)]] → [[Miriam Goldfischer (b.1902)]] → [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]] → [[Chaya Goldfischer (b.1950)]] → [[Avi Bernstein (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] *GEDCOM I500065 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Ezra Isseroff was born about 1904 in [[Berdychiv]], Ukraine, and came to Palestine as a one-year-old when his parents, [[Shimshon Aryeh Iserov (b.1864)]] and [[Soshe Greenberg (b.1869)]], emigrated with the family from Odessa. They settled in Jerusalem, where his father studied in a yeshiva and his mother worked to support the household. Because Soshe was rarely home, Ezra's only sister, [[Baila Isseroff (b.1894)]] (later Weinberg), effectively raised the brothers. From the age of ten Ezra worked to help feed the family, and the six siblings — Notte ([[Nutta Cholodenko Iserov (b.1886)]]), [[Avram Isseroff (b.1888)]], Baila, [[Yehuda Leib Isseroff (b.1898)]], [[Simcha Isseroff (b.1900)]], and Ezra — went separate ways in adulthood: Simcha and Leibish stayed religious, while Ezra and Avraham became secular. [Source: family biography by Judith Isseroff, MyHeritage, in the MyHeritage biography on this profile.] At about twenty Ezra married [[Miriam Lapin (b.1905)]], a fifth-generation Israeli who had worked as a dressmaker from the age of eight and never learned to read or write. The couple had two children, [[Sarah Isseroff (b.1925)]] (later Beech) and [[Arie Shimshon Isseroff (b.1930)]], and moved to Tel Aviv, living on Eilat Street on the boundary with Jaffa; their proximity to Arab neighbours taught the family Arabic even as periods of unrest left them fearful. [Source: family biography, MyHeritage.] Ezra's working life was defined by long hours and successive trades. He managed a gristmill owned by the Hayot brothers, then became a sales agent for Palalum — a maker of stainless-steel cookware and cutlery whose clients included EL AL — in partnership with Mishka Mordechaiov. After Palalum failed, the partners joined Jacob Zingeich as wholesalers of plastic housewares and bathroom fixtures made by the Tama factory in Mishmar Ha'emek, and Ezra also assembled table lamps for the same factory with his son Arie. He rose at 4:00 a.m. all his life and worked from sunrise to sunset, so his children saw him mainly on Sabbaths and holidays; the early-rising habit persisted into retirement, filled with the radio and games of solitaire. [Source: family biography, MyHeritage.] Having left school young, Ezra was an autodidact who taught himself to read and write Hebrew (Yiddish was the home language) and English, and mastered bookkeeping so thoroughly that his partners' own accountant consulted him. He was remembered as sociable and devoted to family — a keen cook whose love of the kitchen passed to Arie and later descendants. Within the wider family he was a mainstay: he took in his great-nephew Reuven (son of Notte, who was killed in the Warsaw Ghetto), providing for his needs and even securing his release after trouble with the law, and in later years he and Miriam visited their grandchildren daily. He counted among his friends Rabbi Aryeh Levin, "the rabbi of the prisoners," who led Arie's bar mitzvah and officiated at his wedding. [Source: family biography, MyHeritage.] Miriam died of a heart attack when their granddaughter Aya was about two. Ezra lived some seven years more and died in Tel Aviv on 18 August 1980, after a month in hospital. [?] The same family account gives his death as 15 August 1980, a minor discrepancy against the 18 August 1980 date recorded in the vital fields above. [Source: family biography, MyHeritage; date variance noted in Open questions.] ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions - Death date discrepancy: the GEDCOM vital fields record **18 August 1980**, but Judith Isseroff's family biography (MyHeritage, MyHeritage biography) states **15 August 1980**. Unresolved; needs a primary source (burial/death record).