Descendants of the Illustrious Katzenellenbogen family

The name "Katzenellenbogen" was first used by Meir Katzenellenbogen (1482-1565) after the family moved to Padua, Italy and then Prague.

Town of Katzenelenbogen, Germany

Rabbi Jehiel Luria

Ancestors

• Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, Maharam of Padua
• Meir Wahl Katzenellenbogen - Maharash
• Saul Wahl Katzenellenbogen - King for a Day
• Telza Katzenellenbogen
• Gaon EzekielKatzenellenbogen

Notable Descendants

• Marcel Proust, 11th great grandson
• Karl Marx, 9th great grandson
• Moses Mendelssohn, 5th great grandson
• Felix Mendelssohn, 7th great grandson
• Helena Rubenstein, 13th great granddaughter
• Martin Buber, 9th great grandson
• Rabbi Azriel Chaikin, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, 13th great grandson
• Rabbi Benjamin Frankel, Founder of Hillel, 12th great grandson
• McKinlay Kantor, American novelist, 13th great grandson
• Shaul Lieberman, distinguished professor of Talmudic and Midrashic literature, 6th great grandson
• Max Leopold Margolis, distinguished professor of Semitic languages and a founder of that field in America, 11th great grandson
• Professor Herbert Rosenkrantz, microbiologist
• Israel Rokeach, founder of Rokeach kosher products
• Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, New York Lubavitcher Rebbe of international fame, 15th great grandson

Sources

• Jewish Encylopedia article on the Katzenellenbogen family
• The Unbroken Chain by Neil Rosenstein (1990) Volume i and ii