Geni Profiles
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
Ancestors
- 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
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