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European Rabbis Throughout the Generations

Appendix I - III

Appendix I: Sifrei Minhagim Vedinim (List of Books of Jewish Law and Customs, 13th to 15th Century)

R’ Asher b’Shaul (1200): Sefer Minhagot
R’ Avraham HaYarhi (1215): Hamanhig
R’ Eliezer of Worms (1232): Sefer Harokeah
R’ Baruch b’Yitzhak (1235): Sefer Hatruma
R’ Moshe of Kutzy (1252): Sefer Mitzvot Gadol
R’ Yehiel Min Ha’anavim (1286): Hatanya
R’ Tzidkiyahu b’Avraham (1290): Shibolei Haleket
R’ Shimon b’Tzadok (1326): Tashbetz
R’ Yaakov ben Asher (1334): Sefer Haturim
R’ Hayim b’David (1339): Tzror Hahayim
R’ Shimon b’Tzemah (1392): Yavin Shemu’a
R’ Menahem b’Zerah (1381): Tzeida Laderekh
R’ Shalom Neustadt (1395): Minhagei Maharash
R’ Avraham Klausner (1408): Sefer Minhagim
R’ Aizik Tirna (1420): Sefer Minhagim
R’ Yaakov b’Moshe Mohlin (1422): Minhagei Maharil
R’ Yaakov Weil (1445): Hilkhot Shehita Uvdika
R’ Zalman Yent (1472): Minhagei Maharaz
R’ Yona b’Israel (1477): Isur Veheter
R’ Yaakov Barukh b’Yehuda (1488): Haagur

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Appendix II: List of Rabbinic Families

Ettinger, Ettinga
Etkes
Eidels
Eisenstadt
Isserles
Altschuler, Altschul
Ashkenazi
Babad
Buchner
Ginsberg, Ullman
Getz
Graiver
Darshan
Hochgelernter, Gelernter
Horowitz, Geza-Tzvi, Segal
Hertz, Hertzkes, Hirsch
Halevi
Halperin
Heller, Helman, Wallerstein
Harkavi
Heschel, Efrati
Wahl
Wolf
Weil
Zak, Zaks, Zakheim
Singer
Hayut (Chayut)
Halfon (Chalfon)
Hasid (Chasid)
Harif (Charif), Shpitzkopf
Treves (Trybish)
Yalles, Yolles
Yekles
Yaffe (Jaffe)
Kohen, Hakohen, Katz, Kahana
Luria
Lieberles
Liebermensch, Lieberman
Lyda
Liway
Lazers, Lazer
Leiner
Lipman, Lifshitz, Lipshes
Landa
Laniado
Meisels
Meislish
Mintz
Mirvish, Mirvitz
Margalioth
Mirels, Mireles, Neumark
Neuhaus
Sofer, Schreiber
Sirkes
Eberles
Falk
Pollak
Popers
Fishels
Perles, Barzap
Frankel
Kases
Karo
Kaidanover
Kluger
Klauber
Klausner, Bushke
Katzenellenbogen
Runkil
Rofe
Rokach
Rapaport
Shealtiel
Schor
Shapira
Shrentzel, Eitan Haezrahi
Teumim, Weinberg, Weinberger
Temerles

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Appendix III: Selection of Rabbinic Literature Containing Genealogical Information

  1. Alfasi, Yitzhak. Hahasidut (The Hasidism). Tel Aviv: Sifriat Maariv, 1977. (Hebrew)
  2. Azulay, Hayim Yosef David. Shem HaGedolim HeHadash (Fame of the Great Ones). Warsaw, 1880. New ed. 1965. (Hebrew)
  3. Braverman, E.P.. Anshei Shem, Part I-II. Warsaw, 1892. (Hebrew)
  4. Davidowitz, Menashe Simkha. Toldot Afsei Aretz. Ramat Hasharon, 1996 (Hebrew)
  5. Dembitzer, Chayim Natan. Klilath Yofi. Krakow, 1888, 1893. (Hebrew)
  6. Dukkes, Yehezkel. Ivah le-moshav. Krakow: Verlag des Herausgebers, E. Gräber, 1903-8. Hamburg: A. Goldschmidt, 1908. Vol. 1-2. (Hebrew ,German)
  7. Eizner, Abraham Aba. Toldot HaGaon R' David Lyda. (Hebrew)
  8. Epstein, A. Mishpakhat Luria. Vienna, 1901. (Hebrew)
  9. Freedman, Chaim. Eliyahu’s Branches - The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and his Family. Avotaynu Inc. (English)
  10. Friedberg, Hayim Duberish. Lukhot Zikaron (Tablets of Remembrance). Frankfurt am Main, 1904. (Hebrew)
  11. Friedenstein, S.E. Ir Gibborim. Vilna, 1880. Jerusalem, 1969. (Hebrew)
  12. HaEfrati, David. Toldot Anshei Shem. Warsaw, 1875. (Hebrew)
  13. Halperin, Rafael. Atlas Etz-Hayim. Jerusalem, 1980. (Hebrew)
  14. Heppner, A. and J. Herzberg: Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der Juden und der Jüdischen Gemeinden in dem Posenerlanden. 1919. (German)
  15. Ish Horowitz, Tzvi Halevi. Toldot Mishpakhat Horowitz.  (Hebrew)
  16. Ish Horowitz, Shlomo Zalman. Rehovot 'Ir. Vilna, 1891. (Hebrew)
  17. Kahana, Samuel Zanvil. Anaf Ets Avoth: Der Bekannten Jüdischen Familien: Horowitz, Heilpern, Rappaport, Margulies, Schorr, Kaznelnbogen. Krakow: Josef Fischer, 1903. (probably reprinted 1998). (Hebrew)
  18. Katzenellenbogen, Yitzchak Meir. Hevel Hakesef (The Silver Cord). Brooklyn, 1939. (Hebrew)
  19. Lifshitz, Aryeh Judah Loeb. Avot Atarah Le-Banim (Parents are the Crown of the Children). Warsaw, 1927. (Reprinted Tel Aviv, 1965) (Hebrew)
  20. Loewenstein, Yosef. Dor Dor Vedorshav. Warsaw, 1900. (Hebrew)
  21. Magid, David. Toldot Mishpakha Ginsberg. (Hebrew)
  22. Margolis/Margolioth, Efraim Zalmen. Maalot Hayukhsin (Degrees of Genealogy). Lemberg, 1900. (Hebrew)
  23. Rosenstein, Neil. The Unbroken Chain. Shengold Publ. Inc. New York, 1976. (English)
  24. Rubinstein, Mordechai. Sefer Nit'ey Ne'emanah (Seedlings of Fidelity: A Shoot Out of the Stock of Jesse). Jerusalem, 1910. (Hebrew)
  25. Sackheim, George S. Scattered Seeds. Vol. 1-2. R. Sackheim Publ. Co., Skokie, IL, 1986. (English)
  26. Schwartzschild, Aharon Moshe. Peer Hakhmei Medinatenu. Kaufman, Sighet, 1910. (Hebrew)
  27. Shapira, Yaakov Leib. Mishpakhot Atikot Beyisrael (Ancients Families in Israel). Tel Aviv, Israel, 1981. (Hebrew)
  28. Wetstein, F. H. Letoldot Israel Vehakhamav BePolin. Krakow, 1949. (Hebrew)
  29. Wunder, Meir. Elef Margaliot. Jerusalem: ha-Makhon le-hantsahat Yahadut Galicia, 1993. (Hebrew)
  30. Wunder, Meir. Meorei Galicia: Encyclopedia Lehakhmei Galicia (Encyclopedia of Galician Sages). Vol. 1-5. Jerusalem: The Institute for the Commemoration of Galician Jewry, 1978-1997. (in Hebrew, with a table of contents in English)

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