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>> Rabbi Jehiel Luria >==Ancestors* Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, Maharam of Padua * Meir Wahl Katzenellenbogen - Maharash
This is a project dedicated to the Jews of Padua, Italy.* Katzenellenbogen tombstones * The Italian Synagogue of Padua (1584) * Jewish Physician Graduates University of Padua ==History of Padua> Padua for centuries one of the most important Jewish communities of Italy, with the synagogue and cemetery, existed as early as 1300. The first Jew in Padua known by name was the physician Jacob Bonacos...