Nadene Goldfoot
Isaak Eduard "Edward" Schnitzer was born into a Jewish family on March 28, 1840 in Oppein, Germany to Juhuda Loeb Schnitzer and Schnitzer (born Schweitzer) . Edward had one brother: Julius (William) Wolf Schnitzer .Another researcher found Mehmed, Emin Pasha was born on month day 1840, in birth place , to Louis Schnitzer and Pauline Schnitzer. nee Schweitzer. This would be true of many of our Ashkenazic Jewish families whose ancestors were from Germany. The only difference is that Edward was baptized in childhood as a Catholic. This time, it wasn't his choice. He was now baptized as Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer.
Therefore, Edward Schnitzer AKA Emin Pasha was born in Oppeln (in present day Poland), Silesia, into a middle-class German Jewish family, which moved to Neisse when he was two years old. After the death of his father in 1845,when he was 5, his mother married a Christian; she and her offspring were baptized Lutherans. So here, it's death and a new father that caused the baptism.
There was a revolution going on in Germany in 1848. Jews were participating as they were struggling for emancipation. Prussia said the Jews were inciting this revolution. Southern Germany, Austria and Prussian Jews were involved, so their countries said. The French Revolution was the impetus of this revolution. Eliminating Jewish disabilities, e.g. Jewish quotas, to which European Jews were then subject, and the recognition of Jews as entitled to equality and citizenship rights was emanipating. It included efforts within the community to integrate into their societies as citizens. It occurred gradually between the late 18th century and the early 20th century.
The forced baptizing of Jews had been going on since the late 1300s which had extended greatly in Spain with the 1492 Spanish Inquisition. The inquisition had been continuing well into Mexico in the late 1800s. I tend to think that his mother felt forced to be baptized, with her new husband insisting; that the position she was in called for her surrender. She may not have even been a very strong Jew at that, finding it fairly easy to let go of her Jewish standards.
"Travelling via Vienna and Trieste, he stopped at Antivari in Montenegro, found himself welcomed by the local community, and was soon in medical practice. He put his linguistic talent to good use, as well, adding Turkish, Albanian, and Greek to his repertoire of languages."
When Ismail Hakki Pasha, governor of northern Albania, died in 1873, Emin went back to Neisse with the pasha's widow and children, where he passed them off as his own family, but left suddenly in September 1875, reappearing in Cairo and then departing for Khartoum, where he arrived in December. There was reason enough to say he was a Moslem being he was traveling with "his Moslem family."
In 1934, Herman Bernstein, the United States Ambassador to Albania, wrote:
“There is no trace of any discrimination against Jews in Albania, because Albania happens to be one of the rare lands in Europe today where religious prejudice and hate do not exist, even though Albanians themselves are divided into three faiths.”
From the Arab Expansion until the 1960s, Jews were a significant part of the population of Arab countries. Before 1948, an estimated 900,000 Jews lived in what are now Arab states.
Edward wanted to be a doctor, Jewish or Christian, so he practiced medicine in Albania which was then under Turkish rule. Being in Turkey since Albania was taken over by the Ottoman Empire, he now converted to be a Moslem, and took a Turkish name of Emin Pasha. Actually, although some regarded him as a Muslim, it is not clear if he ever actually converted.
Now that he was a Moslem, he wound up in the Turkish army, serving under General Gordon (not an Islamic surname, for sure), so the English must have been involved at this point. Gordon was governor of the Equatorial Provinces, who nominated Emin Pasha as his successor in 1878. Schnitzer/Pasha was now 38 years old. Major-General Charles George Gordon CB, also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army. Born in London, he died in the Sudan.
Stanley of Central Africa
Five years later, on the outbreak of the Mahdi's rebellion, Schnitzer/Pasha was cut off from the outside world in 1883 and was compelled to retire with his force into Central Africa where he was eventually relieved by a British expeditionary force under Stanley. Was that Stanley and Livingstone of Africa? Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone,
In 1890, he transferred to German service and set out to acquire areas near Lake Victoria for Germany. He may have even remembered his own German. German East Africa was a colony that was organised when the German military was asked in the late 1880s to put down a revolt against the activities of the German East Africa Company. It ended with Imperial Germany's defeat in World War I. Ultimately GEA was divided between Britain, Belgium and Portugal and was reorganised as a mandate of the League of Nations.
In the end, he was murdered in the Congo by slave-traders whose activities he had opposed.
He had been responsible for important investigations into the ornithology, ethnography, and meteorology of Central Africa, which showed a remnant of his science background in becoming a doctor. Emin Pasha is commemorated in the scientific name of an East African species of leptotyphlopid snake, Emin Pasha's worm snake Leptotyphlops emini, and an East African species of Passer sparrow, the chestnut sparrow Passer eminibey.
Edward Schnitzer as a man with a certain amount of Jewish DNA hadn't changed, though his religion did. Even his environment didn't alter his main urges of becoming a doctor, being curious, and a scientist.
By October 23, 1892) Schnitzer was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile. The Ottoman Empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and thereafter he was referred to as "Emin Pasha".
There have been many Jews living in the Arab world who were well educated and used an Arabic name. So it's possible that when we see an Arabic name as inventor, head of something or other, he could be Jewish. You never know.
My father's boss in Portland was the Kosher butcher, Schnitzer, and he was a stern task-master according to my father who trained under him. His market was on SW 3rd and Lincoln.
It's also a prominent name in Portland, of Schnitzer Iron and Steel Scrap Metal. It is a global leader in the metals recycling industry. Founded in 1906, they collect, process and recycle raw scrap metal (ferrous and nonferrous) and provide processed scrap metal to mills and foundries around the world.
Because of this important industry, we have the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall and the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Foundation.
I find that I myself am DNA connected to a man and 3 women on FTDNA with Schnitzer in their tree but not their surnames. All are my 4th to remote cousins; a Benjamin and 2 Evelyns that must be mother and daughter or cousins, and a Joan. Our family is from Lithuania/Poland and we are Ashkenazi, so have that German connection.
Resource:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jews_from_the_Arab_world
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emin_Pasha
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4615300
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4464829
https://www.myheritage.com/names/edward_schnitzer
https://www.schnitzersteel.com/sell-to-us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_%C4%B0smail_Hakk%C4%B1_Pasha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_emancipation
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