Show DESCENDANT OF KING DAVID Philadelphia Woman Who Traced Kinship Kinship Kin Kin- ship to Jewish Family of Abarbanel 1 A lineal descendant of King David lied in Philadelphia recently Mrs Gustav Lipschuetz was her name She lived with her husband and five children at 1419 Diamond street but death leath came caine In St St. St St. Lukes Luke's hospital where she had undergone an sn operation She was 53 years of age Through the misty readies of sacred history this woman could trace her kinship to the distinguished Jewish family Abarbanel whose relationship shi shito to King David is undoubted and whose achievements throughout Europe are matters of history Mrs Airs Lipschuetz whose maiden I name was Bertha Neumann sprang from that branch of the family of which Don Isaac Abarbanel prime minister of Spain in 1492 was the head During that time when persecution persecution perse perse- cution against the Jews began as a a result of the change in the religious views of Ferdinand and Isabella Isabelia Don Isaac was obliged to flee with his less favored brethren The family scattered scattered scattered scat scat- settling in various various- various parts parts of Europe Eu Eu- rope Don Isaac afterward became prime minister in Italy The grandfather of the dead woman was was Rudolph Hirsch Abarbanel one oneo o of the foremost rabbis of Germany in inthe i the thelast last century The city Gretz where I he died gave him a public funeral and the government buildings were draped ped in mourning |