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2nd wife ibn Yachya HaZaken MP (c.1265 - aft.1265)

Abū ʾl-Surūr Perahya ben ben Yosef ibn ʿAwkal MP (deceased)

Rabbi Yehiel Hilel Gaon II MP (c.1060 - c.1080)

"In 1066, when his father, Jehoseph HaNagid, was assassinated and a riot broke out against the Granadan Jewish community, his widow, Rahel, and his son Abū Naṣr Azariah, who was a child at the time, fl...

Abū Zikrī "Yehudah" ben Yosef ben Simḥa, Rosh haSeder MP (c.950 - c.1020)

Judah ben Joseph of QayrawanJudah ben Joseph b. Simḥa was perhaps the most important figure in the Jewish community of Qayrawān toward the end of the tenth century and the beginning of the eleventh. Kn...

Sassanid Princess Dara Izdadwar MP (c.595 - c.651)

Genealogical Charthusband, Bustanai (d. 660/5) was the first Jewish Exilarch to be recognized by Arab rule. His birth and much of his life is surrounded by legend. Izdundwar, the daughter of the King o...

Rab David I 'Pinchas' ben Abdimi, Exilarch & Gaon of Ramla MP (c.810 - c.870)

Rav Pinchas David ben Yehudah was an exilarch during the first half of the ninth century. In his bid for office, David was opposed by another member of the exilarchal dynasty named Daniel ben Anan. The...

David Ben Yosef Kimchi HaRadak MP (1160 - 1235)

David Kimhi (Hebrew: דוד קמחי‎, also Kimchi or Qimḥi) (1160–1235), also known by the Hebrew acronym as the RaDaK (רד"ק) (Rabbi David Kimhi), was a medieval rabbi, biblical commentator, philosopher, and...

Habiba wife of Mar Sutra MP (deceased)

Ḥaim David Ben Joseph ben Yosef Raphael Ḥazzan, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem MP (1790 - 1869)

Elijah Bekhor ben Raphael Joseph Ḥazzan (d. 1908) moved to Jerusalem at the age of ten with his grandfather, Rabbi Ḥayyim David ben Joseph Raphael Ḥazzan . From the 1860s, he fulfilled public roles in ...

Havah bat Mar Huna IV MP (c.415 - c.493)

1. Gil, Moshe. ‘The Exilarchate’, pp 33-65 in The Jews of Medieval Islam, ed. by Daniel Frank. E.J. Brill (1995).2. Goode, Alexander D. ‘The Exilarchate in the Eastern Caliphate’, article in “Jewish Qu...

*Havah "The Heiress" bat Mar Huna VI MP (c.470 - 493)

Ḥayyim ben Yosef Ḥazzan (bat Joseph ben Elijah Ḥazzan) MP (1650 - c.1712)

The Ḥazzans (Ḥazan) were a Sephardi rabbinical family first mentioned in seventeenth-century Izmir (Smyrna). Several members of the family served as rabbis in communities of the Ottoman Empire from the...

Hisdai Shahrijar "Sheshna" ben Bustanai, Exilarch & Gaon of Sura MP (c.645 - c.717)

Exilarchs *Exilark av judarna i Bagdad 660-665. Exilarch was the title given to the head of the Babylonian Jews, who, from the time of the Babylonian exile, were designated by the term "golah" (see Jer...

Huna ben Nathan, Mar Huna IV, 24th Exilarch MP (c.395 - 442)

Abba was succeeded first by his son Nathan and then by another son, Mar Kahana. The latter's son Huna is then mentioned as successor, being the fourth exilarch of that name; he died in 441, according t...

Isaac ben Yosef haLevi MP (c.1502 - 1571)

Isaac fathered at least three sons, of whom Solomon (II) (see below) became the most famous, the other two being Joseph (I) (d. late 1616) and Judah.D Gershon LewentalBibliographyEmmanuel, Isaac Samuel...

Jannai (Jannei) ben Yosef (.) MP (deceased)

Luke 3:24.

Mar Rab Judah 'Hazub' bar Pinchas, Exilarch, Gaon, haSofer of Pumbeditha MP (c.860 - c.949)

Abū 'l-Kathīr Yaḥyā ibn ZakariyyāʾAbū ʾl-Kathīr Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyāʾ (d. ca. 932) was a Jewish theologian and Bible translator from Tiberias whose main claim to fame is the fact that Saʿadya Gaon studi...

Khalaf Aaron ben Yosef haKohen ibn Sarjado, Gaon of Pumbeditha MP (c.915 - c.942)

Ibn Sarjado, Aaron (Khalaf) ben Joseph ha-KohenAaron (Ar. Khalaf) ben Joseph ha-Kohen ibn Sarjado was gaon of Pumbedita from around 942 to 960. Ibn Sarjado was not from a family of scholars, but marrie...

Khamma ben Nachum II, 5th Exilarch Huna I MP (c.175 - 260)

Huna Kamma (Aramaic/Hebrew: הונא קמא, lit. Huna I); was a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth generation of the Tannaim era. He was an Exilarch, head of the Jewish exile in Babylon, during the days of Judah...

Mar Yitzhak Sadoq MP (c.792 - c.858)

According to Moshe Gil, Google Books: Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages /Moše Gîl: Sherira Gaon, and his family.

Mar Sutra I "Guriya" ben Mar Zutra III, 3rd Exilarch & Gaon of Tiberias MP (c.589 - c.670)

על מר זוטרא השלישי בן מר זוטרא השני נאמר: In the ninth century, probably in Palestine, Seder ʿOlam Zuta (Smaller World Order, including an excerpt of Seder ʿOlam rabba ) listed the Palestinian leaders ...

Mar Sutra II bar Guriya (ben Mar Guria), 4th Exilarch & Gaon of Tiberias MP (c.633 - d.)

מר זוטרא השלישי

Mar Sutra II (Sa'adya) ben Mar Tsutra I, 2nd Exilarch & Gaon of Tiberias MP (c.558 - c.615)

Mar Zutra II (a/k/a "Sa'adya ben Mar Zutra III") was Rosh Pereq of the Yeshivat Ge’on Yaʿaqob (Academy of the Pride of Jacob), and it functioned throughout the early Muslim period in Palestine, from th...

Mar Sutra Sutra MP (c.325 - d.)

Abarbanel – undated handwritten manuscript from the collection of the late Rabbi Shmuel Gorr, held by Chaim Freedman.Reference was made to “Elef Margaliot” 1993, Meir Wunder.

Mar Zutra III a/k/a Mar Sutra I ben Mar Zutra II, 1st Exilarch of Tiberias MP (520 - c.589)

Mar Zutra III (a/k/a "Mar Sutra I") was Rosh Pereq of the Yeshivat Ge’on Yaʿaqob (Academy of the Pride of Jacob), and it functioned throughout the early Muslim period in Palestine, from the Muslim conq...

Mar Zutra II, 30th Exilarch MP (c.488 - c.520)

Mar-Zutra II was an Exilarch who led a successful revolt against Persia in the sixth century and achieved seven years of political independence in Mahoza.Mar-Zutra II became Exilarch of the Jewish comm...

Me'ir ben Yosef ben Me’ir ibn Migash (ibn Ezra) MP (c.1102 - c.1180)

Meʾir ibn Migash (12th century) was the son of the well-known talmudist Joseph ibn Migash. Following the Sephardi tradition, he was named for his grandfather, who had lived in Seville in the eleventh c...

Miriam Mariuma Klein, Ben Yosef MP

Miriam (Mariuma) Klein Ben Yosef (born 1964) is an Israeli activist and social entrepreneur, founder of the Shanti House. Awards: 2000 : Honored by Lighting a Beacon at the Independence Day cere...

Mar Rab Mishoi 'Sheshna' ben Yitzhak Sedeq, haSofer b'Pumbeditha MP (c.820 - d.)

Moses Raḥamim ben Yosef Raphael Ashkenazi (ben Mordechaim Ashkenazi) MP (1809 - 1878)

The Bekemoharar family of rabbis and scholars was descended from Menahem ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1666–1733), who was born in Timişoara (Temesvár) near the border between present-day Romania and Serbia. Hi...

Moshe ben Yosef Benveniste, haRoffe MP (c.1558 - d.)

Moses Benveniste, a rabbi who also served as physician to Grand Vizier Siyavuş Pasha (r. 1582–1584, 1586–1589, 1592–1593). Moses was eventually exiled from Istanbul to Rhodes by order of the sultan. He...

Nathan bar Abba Mari, 21st Exilarch Nathan II MP (c.352 - c.427)

A celebrated Babylonian amora; born 352; died 427; reestablished the academy at Sura, and was the first editor of the Babylonian Talmud. According to a tradition preserved in the academies (Ḳid. 72b), ...

Nechemya II ben Magis, 8th Exilarch & Gaon of Tiberias MP (c.698 - d.)

מר זוטרא השלישי

Nissim ben Moshe Benveniste (ben Yosef Benveniste) MP (1582 - 1621)

Rabbi Nissim ben Moses Benveniste (1582–1621), married the daughter of Rabbi Elijah ben Ḥayyim, a famous Romaniot rabbi of the last quarter of the sixteenth century known as the Ranaḥ. Nissim died when...

Rab Dimi 'Abba Dimi' ben Nechemiah II, 9th Exilarch & Gaon of Ramla MP (c.760 - c.840)

He was the son of Nechemiah ben Magis. Abdimi is the first Exilarch to return a purely Jewish ancestry to the Exilarchate when he takes a Jewish Wife of unquestionable yichus. Abdimi has five (5) sons1...

Raḥamim Elijah ben Yosef Rapael Ḥazzan MP (b. - 1840)

Joseph Raphael had four sons from his marriage to Rusa, the daughter of Daniel Pallache (Palaggi; see Pallache Family), all of whom were noted scholars: Eliezer (d. 1823), author of the responsa collec...

Rav David ben Rabeina II, Grandson of Exilarch Mar Huna IV MP (c.454 - c.508)

Rav Yakob 'Zakai' ben Mar Sutra II, 5th Exilarch & Gaon of Tiberias MP (c.660 - d.)

Little is known, however we do know that Yakob is the son of Sa'adyah (Mar Sutra II). He has two (2) sons1) Shlomo ben Zakai (Migas) and2) Shemaiyah מר זוטרא השלישי

R' David Nathan ben Chazub, Exilarch, Rosh Golah of Judah MP (c.878 - c.945)

David ben Judah (a/k/a "David ben Zakkai" )David ben Judah was an exilarch during the first half of the ninth century. In his bid for office, David was opposed by another member of the exilarchal dynas...

Shlomo ben Yahya ibn Yahya MP (1245 - 1340)

Reference: "Divrei ha-Yamim le-Bnei Yahya,( דברי הימים לבני יחייא )" , by Eliakim Carmoly, Printed in Frankfort am Main/Rodelheim, Published by: Isak Kaufman, 1850. Genealogy of, and biographical work ...

Shlomo Ben Yosef (Tabachnik) MP (1913 - 1938)

ויקיפדיה: שלמה בן יוסף משרד הביטחון - דף הנצחה _________________________________________________________________________________ Shlomo Ben-Yosef (May 7, 1913 in Poland as Shalom Tabachnik – Jun...

Solomon ben Yosef haLevi (haLevi) MP (c.1455 - d.)

The Sephardi family known as ha-Levi or le-Vet ha-Levi (Heb. of the House of Levi) produced a number of leading scholars and communal leaders in Salonica during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....

Sussan bat Al Palestin bat Abaye haKohen Gaon MP (c.830 - d.)

Todros ben Yosef HaLevi Abulafia MP (1234 - bef.1304)

Todros Abulafia: Spanish Talmudist, religious poet, and cabalist; born in 1234; died at Seville after 1304 (according to Grätz, "Gesch. d. Juden," viii. note 12; Zacuto in the "Yuḥasin" gives 1288; A...

??? bat Mar Rab Ishaq of Firuz-Shabur MP (c.689 - d.)

Yakob (Jacob) ben Yosef Kohen Ṣedeq II, Gaon of Sura & Pumbeditha MP (c.883 - c.935)

Kohen Ṣedeq ben Joseph GaonKohen Ṣedeq ben Joseph—not to be confused with Kohen Ṣedeq Bar Ivomay, gaon of Sura from 832 to 843)—served as gaon of Pumbedita from February of 917 to 935 (see Yeshivot in ...

Yehudah ben Yosef ben Eleazar HaKohen MP (c.1038 - d.)

Judah ben Joseph ben Eleazar ha-Kohen, often referred to simply as “the rav” in letters from the Cairo Geniza, was one of the most respected scholars in Egypt during the second half of the eleventh cen...

Yehudah ben Shlomo haLevi (ben Yosef haLevi) MP (c.1484 - d.)

The Sephardi family known as ha-Levi or le-Vet ha-Levi (Heb. of the House of Levi) produced a number of leading scholars and communal leaders in Salonica during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....

Saint Jude MP (c.3 - d.)

The Siblings of Jesus: In the Christian New Testament: Mark 6:3 [ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” ...

Yitzhak ben Yosef Rapael Ḥazzan MP (b. - c.1854)

Joseph Raphael had four sons from his marriage to Rusa, the daughter of Daniel Pallache (Palaggi; see Pallache Family), all of whom were noted scholars: Eliezer (d. 1823), author of the responsa collec...

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? Kremer (deceased)

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?? ben Yosef Hazan (deceased)

??? bat Bishr ben Aaron (deceased)

1st dau. Of Mar Rab Mishoi 'Sheshna' (deceased)

1st Wife daughter of Exilarch Family (deceased)

2nd Wife Daughter of Kalamist (deceased)

2nd Wife of Rav Yakob (Sutra) (deceased)

Aaron ben Yosef Sasson (ben Aaron Sasson) (1555 - c.1626)

Abraham Ben Yosef (Berez) (deceased)

(Adolph) (Avram) "Bennie" (Saconov) Sachnoff ben Yosef (1881 - 1942)

(Adolph) (Avram) "Bennie" (Sacanov) Sachnoff ben Yosef (b. - 1942)

(Adolph) (Avram) "Bennie" (Saconov) Sachnoff ben Yosef (deceased)

Doctor Ahadham ben Yosef Tzarfati (c.925 - d.)

Aharon Aronof (Ben Yosef) (deceased)

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Aharon Ben Yosef (1900 - c.1949)

מאתר הפלמ״ח נולד בבולגריה ב-1900עלה ב-1922גוייס ב-1943 ליחידות: יחידת הצנחנים. תפקיד אחרון: צנחן. שוחרר ב-1946נפטר ב-5/1949קורות חייםאהרון נולד בשנת 1900 בבולגריה. בנעוריו היו הוא ואשתו פעילים בתנועה ל...

Ahuva Ben Yosef (Finkelstein) (1915 - d.)

Albert Yosef Ben Yosef (Yossifov) (deceased)

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Aliza Tager (deceased)

Aliza Ben Yosef (Cohen) (deceased)

Amada Ben Yosef (Aronov) (deceased)

Ammi ben Mar Yosef, Gaon of Pumbeditha (c.775 - 820)

Amnon Ben Yosef (deceased)

Arie Ben Yosef (Szuminer) (1907 - 1987)

Asaf Ben Yosef (deceased)

Avraham ben yosef (deceased)

Avraham Grzebieniarz (Ben Yosef) (1955 - 1974)

AVRAHAM BEN YOSEF (c.1900 - c.1985)

Avrahm Ben Yosef (deceased)

Bara, caregiver to sons of Haninai (c.639 - d.)

See"Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages"By Moše Gîl, Volume 28 of Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval / Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval. Translated by David Strassler, Published by Brill 2004, ISB...

bat Hisdai ben Ahunai (Shahrijar) (c.661 - 735)

Batia Mishkov Ben Yosef (1894 - 1957)

Batya Ben Yosef (Kabilyo) (1945 - 2006)

"Bennie" Sachnoff (Adolph Saconov) (Avrum ben Yosef) (1881 - 1942)

benvenisti ben yosef, halevi (deceased)

Rabbi Benvenisti ben Yosef Ha'Levi (1170 - 1230)

Berdichevsky-Sokolka Families Tree - HaLevi, Benvenisti

Binyamin ben Yosef ibn ʿAwkal (c.1050 - d.)

Binyamin / Felix Ben-Yosef / Goldschmidt (1905 - 1987)

Source: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-152143662-1-500053/louisa-yossifov-לבית-sabitai-in-myheritage-family-trees?indId=externalindividual-496047a424f626877388d029a324b379&mrid=6a3aef1e88e3981aaa3d7473dd01c69f

Buka Donna Dona Conforti, Doignase Conforty (Ben Yosef) (1894 - 1968)

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Buka Lea Alkalai (Asher Ben Yosef) (1908 - c.1952)

Cecilia Ancill (Moses) (1873 - 1950)

Census: 1891 E&W Census - Henry and Eva Moses & family - Leeds, England (Media)

Chana Ben Yosef (Cohen) (deceased)

Chava Ben -Yosef ( Iglevitch) (deceased)

Clara BEN YOSEF(TOULMAN) (c.1905 - 1967)

David Ben Yosef (deceased)

David Ben-Dayan (ben Yosef) (deceased)

David Ben Yosef (deceased)