• ? Bezalel ben Yehuda LOEW + (?)
  • Rabbi Haim (Hayyim, Chaim) WORMS (yiddish VIRMIS or similar) of Worms source Prof. Isak Gath OR Haim (Chaim/Hayyim/Khaim) LOEW-BEER Born: Bet. 1450 - 1480 in Isenheim/Issenheim, Alsace, France or Worms, Germany. Died: 1522 in Prague, Bohemia or Nov 24, 1565 in Worms + Vogelin Feigele (?)
    • Nathan LOEB or WORMS

    • Zvi HELMAN or HaLEVI + (?) Father: R' Eliezer TREVES Died: 1566 in Frankfurt *Eliezer Treves, son of Naftali Herz Treves (1493-1566) on Infobank and on JE Eliezer ben Naphtali Hirz Treves (1495-1567) (aka Eliezer Frankfurt) Mother: Juta (?) both buried in the old cemetery Boerneplatz in Frankfurt Grandfather: Naftali Treves G- grandfather: Eliezer Treves Gg-grandfather: Samuel Treves of Alsace Ggg-grandfather: Joseph Treves. Gggg-grandfather: Mattithiah Treves (abt 1325 Paris - 1385/7) chief rabbi (ABD) of Paris, whose daughter Vergentlin (Hana, Channah) Treves (abt 1375 in Landau, Germany) married Solomon Spira on 2nd Spira page
      • Gitl HaLEVI + Yehuda HaLEVI a Talmudist *they had several children
        • R' Samuel (Shmuel) Eliezer haLevi EDELES or EIDELS (MaHaRSHA) Born: 1555 in Krakow, Poland. Died: 1631 + (?) Father: Edel LIFSCHITZ of Posen and? the late Moshe Lifschitz, rabbi of Brisk

          Note see wikipedia: "..Samuel adopted the name of his mother-in-law and served as rabbi in the following prominent communities: Chelm, Lublin and Ostrog. Eidels was also active in the Council of Four Lands.." OR MaHaRSHA on Daniel Loeb site

        • Abraham HaLEVI
          • daughter HaLEVI + Yaakov haKOHEN

            Note: ancestors of the famous Hakohen LASKER families in Poland and Germany, Eduard Lasker (1829-1884) the German liberal politician, Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941)the world chess champion and many others

    • R' Yaakov (Jacob) WORMS Died: 1563 in Worms. Reichsrabbiner "Rabbi of the Reich", Chief Rabbi of the German Jews, of the Holy Roman Empire and pupil of the Maharshal, Rabbi Zvi Ha’alman

    • R' Bezaleel (Bezalel, Betzalel) LOEB or WORMS Born: abt. 1480 + (?) Father: R' Yitzchak (Isaac) KLOBER (KLAUBER/LA) (abt 1480 -) of Worms or Posen, maternal grandfather of R' Shlomo (Salomon) Luria (1510-1574) "Maharshal" and son of R' Zacharia MENDEL of Posen on 2nd Spira page OR (?) daughter of R' Chaim ISSEMHEIMER *Betzalel’s tombstone ”his praise and merits can not be told and no man like him can be found” *JE Judah Löw "Maharal", Barkai ancestry listing, Noda b. Yehuda notes page
      • R' Sinai LOEB *see below Born: abt. 1508? in Poznan, Posen, Poland or Worms, Germany + Khana "Enokh" WESSELS

      • daughter

      • R' Hayyim (Chaim) LOEB Born: 1506 or 1510 or 1515 in? Died: 1588 in Freidberg, Germany. President of the Rabbinate Court in Friedburg. His works: "Sefer ha-Ḥayyim," Cracow, 1593; Amsterdam, 1713; Lemberg, 1887; "Mayim Ḥayyim," Amsterdam, 1711; Lemberg, without introduction; "Iggeret ha-Tiyyul," Scriptural comments in alphabetical order, Prague, 1605, and Offenbach, 1717; "'Eẓ ha-Ḥayyim"; "Be'er Mayim Ḥayyim," supercommentary to Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch

        Note: JE: "German Talmudist; died at Friedberg on the Shabu'ot festival, 1588. He was the eldest of the four sons of Bezaleel ben Ḥayyim, and spent his youth at Posen, the native city of the family.. He began his literary activity at Worms, where he had gone in 1549; and, apparently, he succeeded his uncle Jacob ben Ḥayyim as rabbi in that city, after Jacob's death in 1563.. He subsequently went as rabbi to Friedberg.." OR Rabbi Chaim Loeb"One of four brothers about whom the great commentator and posek R' Shlomo Luria "Maharshal" wrote: "I have heard about the wise brothers, the lofty, wise and pious one R' Chaim; the lion of Torah R' Laib; and the 2 shining stars R' Sinai and R' Shimshon.. "R' Chaim was a leading sage of his generation, though his legacy is overshadowed by that of his younger brother R' Laib, better known as the Maharal of Prague. When he is quoted, it is usually by the name "R' Chaim, the brother of Maharal".. As a young man R' Chaim traveled to study under R' Shalom Shakna of Lublin, one of the leading sages of Poland and the leader of the pilpul school of Torah studies. However, like his fellow student (cousin of Maharshal) R' Moshe Isserles "Rema" (both on 2nd Spira page), R' Chaim apparently rejected the pilpul method. R' Chaim's next teacher was Maharshal, and it was his method of studying halachah that R' Chaim adopted as his own.. R' Chaim was reluctant to leave any written works. He encouraged his students to memorize material and study by heart, thus developing their memories and their analytical abilities. That R' Chaim wrote any books is a testimony to the persistent demands of his students, and even so, he postponed his writing until an epidemic forced him to be quarantined and separated from anyone with whom he could "talk in learning." (This happened in 1569 and again in 1579.)" another article

      • R' Shimshon (Samson) LOEB Born: 1522? or 1510? in Prague. Died: in Kremitz + (?), daughter of Shmuel BAK Shimshon was the president of the Rabbinate Court in Kremnitz. *see descendants of Shimshon on Lipa Roitman genealogy site
      • daughter + Pesach (Peisach, Pesah) OSTROPOLIE
        • R' Shimshon "Samson" OSTROPOLIE (OSTROPOLI) "Dan Yadin" Born: 1600 in Poland. Died: Jul 15, 1648 in Polonnoye, Ukraine

        Note: Samson ben Pesah Ostropoli was a Polish rabbi and a noted kabbalist who martyred at Polonnoye, government of Podolia, in the Cossacks' Uprising. When the Cossacks laid siege to Polonnoye, Samson, with 300 of his followers, arrayed in their shrouds and praying-shawls, went to the synagogue, and stood there praying until the enemy came and butchered them all

        • child + child Father: Rabbi Shabtai ben Meir haKOHEN (ShaKh, Siftei Kohen) Born: 1621 Died: 1662 *same as Shabbetai ben Meir COHEN Benjamin WOLF (Schach), ancestor of Paula (Lipschitz) Schiff on Wolf page? *see also Loeb site or Lipa Roitman site

      • Daughter + Zacharia Mendel KLOIZNER (KLOSNER)the Elder of Posen
        • Binyamin Beinush KLOIZNER Died: 1626 + Sarah or Sarka Father: R' Naftali Zvi HIRSH (HERTZ), son of Yitzhak haDarshan of Levuv
        • Zecharia Mendle KLOIZNER Died: 1672 in Jerusalem + (?) *see also on Heymann or Loeb site

      • daughter + Rabbi Avigdor KARA

        Note: Any relation to Rabbi Avigdor ben Jicchak (Isaac) Kara, rabbi of Prague, noted poet and kabbalist, and one of the most important names, that Jan Hus was influenced by, in the development of his doctrines. Prague has the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe, opened from the 15^th Century to the late 18^th Century. In 1439, Avigdor Kara (the court poet of Wenceslaus, who lived through the pogrom of 1389 to later eulogize about it) was the first person to be buried there. Over the next 400 years, about 200,000 residents of the ghetto in Prague were buried in its confines. Since the cemetery could only hold about 10 percent of that amount, the tombs are situated at 12 different layers. Two of the cemetery’s most famous tombs are Rabbi Jehuda Loew/Loeb (1609) and Mordechai Maisel (1601). Since 1990, the Jewish Museum of Prague has been conserving and restoring the cemetery. Today, about 12,000 tombstones remain AND this article: “The son of Judah's sister was the gaon (religious authority), Avigdor Karo ABD (av bet din, i.e., chief judge), Prague, uncle of Joseph Karo, author of Beit Yosef (Joseph's House) (of which Shulchan Aruch was an abbreviated version), and father of the gaon Judah Karo ABD Glogau, father of the gaon Joseph Karo who was ABD in 20 communities..”

      • R' Jehuda LOEW (see Maharal of Prague family) Born: 1525 in Posen or Pesach or 1512 in Worms. Died: Aug 1609 in Prague or Sep 17, 1609 + Perla SHMELKES Born: 1528 in Prague. Married: 1544 Died: 5 May 1610 in Prague

Rabbi Sinai LOEB Born: Abt. 1508 in Poznan, Posen, Poland or Worms, Germany. Died: 1607 in Kolín, Bohemia, Czech age 99 est + Khana "Enokh" (see WESSELS family) Father: Enoch Wessels Mother: Rykl, daughter of Des ARZTES

Sinai had a "yeshivah" in Prague, later becoming a "Chief Rabbi" of Mikulov/Nikolsburg and all of Moravia, CZ. Teacher of Rabbi David Ganz, he was noted for his knowledge of history and teaching. Like his brothers Hayim and Samson, he was a distinguished scholar, however their works are hard to find. Sinai was noted for his knowledge of history and teaching: .."Intrigued by the Maharal's magical powers, Emperor Rudolf-II requested several meetings with the Maharal to learn his secrets. On February 16, 1594, his colleague astronomer Tycho Brahe arranged the meeting, on which he was accompanied by his brother Sinai and his son-in-law Isaac Ha-Kohen".. *Senator John Forbes KERRY "may" also be a descendant of Rabbi Sinai Loeb (see KERRY Family)

• R. Khaim (Chaim) ben Sinai LOEB Born: 1545 Died: 1620 age 75 est + Krasna bat Gabriel (?) *He was av beit din and head of yeshiva in Kolin and Bohemia and everybody called him Rabbi Chaim son of Rabbi Sinai
  • R' Betzalel GLAZER Died: 1658 in Prague or 1670? in Krakow

• Gabriel LOEB Born: 1592 Died: 1629. President of the Rabbinate Court in Mikulov (Nikolsburg), Moravia

• Yehuda LOEB ben Khaim Born: 1593 or 1595 + (?) daughter of Jitskhak/Yitzchak/Isaac HACOHEN (Ha-KOHEN)

  Note: Gilbert Hendlisz skips this generation and gives Rabbi Yehuda Lieb as the son of Rabbi Chaim of Konin. Yehuda Leib, known as Leib Hendels, was the son-in-law of a Rav Moshe Israel Hendlish of Cracow. This person had married the daughter of Israel Hendlish of Cracow. Israel Hendlish (1560-1629) had a son, Avram Yehuda Hendlish, known as Rabbi Avram Israel Hendlish. He was a leader of the jewish community of Cracow for more than 50 years and also member of the Council of the Four Lands. Daughter of Avram Israel Hendlish married Rabbi Chaim Mendel Mann and this couple had a daughter who married Rabbi Rafael of Cracow ("preacher, holy teacher and sofer") . Rafael was the son of Moshe Livah, a well known Rabbi of Slonim, Vilna and Brisk, otherwise known by his work "Chelkas Mechokek". Moshe Livah was the son of a Rabbi Isaac Yehuda Livai, surname that is a corruption of Loeb/Loew. *The Eskeles Genealogy book omits Rabbi Yehuda Lieb and places his children directly here. see ESKELES family page

  Note: Is this the same Isaac ben Samson Ha-Kohen who married Lea Loew and later her sister Vögele Löb/Loew, daughters of the Maharal? Isaac was a Bohemian talmudist who died May 30, 1624, in Prague, an assistant rabbi and magistrate of the community and son-in-law of the chief rabbi of Prague, Lewa ben Bezaleel, and the father of Hayyim ha-Kohen (rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Main and at Posen) and Naphtali ha-Kohen (rabbi at Lublin). Isaac is a son of Rabbi Shimshon Cohen, son of Rabbi Gershon Cohen (-1544), son of Rabbi Akiva Ha-Cohen from Uban, son of Rabbi Yitzchok HaKohen, son of Rabbi Akiva Kakohen the elder "Av Bais Din of Saloniki" exiles from Spain and descendants of the Kohen Gadol Elie OR Isaac, son of Joseph ben Joshua ben Meïr Ha-Kohen (1496-1575 in Genoa, Italy), who had three sons (Isaac, Joshua, Judah) and two daughters. *more on Joseph

• Yehudit (Judith) LOEB + Elasar (Eleasar, Eleasor) TODROS (Todroth?) of Prague. Died: 1635

  Note: family tree DNA "Todres is a distinguished name throughout Jewish history, but until now we have not been able to trace the descent from the famous medieval and ancient Todres's to those alive today. Just one example is the fact that a Todros family of renowned rabbi's is mentioned in the Talmud. No one knows whether or not all Todres' are related in the remote past. Todres or Todros and many other variations on the spelling are all the same as the name was always Jewish and hence often no vowels" OR any relation to Todros names on Jewish Encyclopedia and ref. to poet or wordsmith Eliezer Todros (died 1527) of Saloniki(a), Greece OR Benedict/Baruch Todros (living 1580) in Turin and Jaquia Todros (Pô) banking family in Turin and Piémont 1700 OR Rabbi Todros of Kovno/Kaunas, Lithuania mentioned in Oct. 20, 1559

  • Haim Lasar TODROS Born: 1634 Died: 1709

    Note: Judaica Bohemiae: "Todres faction bore the name of its founder Moses Hayyim ben Elazar Todres Mezia (died 1709), son Hirsch and Gabriel Elkesch (Eskeles) were relatives. The successful and wealthy businessman "morenu we-ha-rav-rabenu (mwhr)" R. Hayyim Todres was also rabbi at the Klausen Synagogue and, from 1693 onwards, at the Pinkas Synagogue " both in Prague and Nehemiah Todros "nassi", newly arrived from Spain, and a descendant of Todros Abulaffi Halevi and "struggles for the Prague and particularly for the Land Chief Rabbinate. 312) Ibidem (Memorandum by Israel Bondy of May 22, 1688; Memorandum by M. H. Todros..".. Hayyim Moses Todres, Joachim Todres, Joachim Roßtheusch[er] Todros OR any relation to Azriel Bondi ( - 1716 Prague) Rosh Kehilla in Prague on Spira page?

    • Hirsch TODROS from note above?

  • son TODROS Died: 1680 in Prague

  • Pessel (Perl?) TODROS + Michl "Michal, Michael" (see WIENER-SPIRA family) Died: 1691 Father: R. David Spira or Wiener-Spira? (1635 ?) rabbi in Vienna

    Note: Michael remained in Vienna and his memory was perpetuated by his gift of several valuable curtains to the Old-New School of Prague

    • David WIENER (Wiener-Spira, David Michl Wien) + Mirl SCHLACKENWERTH Died: 1681 Father: Sinai Schlackenwerth *2nd wife: Elen (see LICHTENSTADT family) Father: Abraham Lichtenstadt
      • Salman WIENER (Wien?) + Malke (?)
        
        • Bele WIENER (Wien?) + Falk MARKUS

          Note: any relation to Abraham Markus (abt 1680-) in Všeruby 1722 census. Family living there for 100+ years. A wealthy family, Markus is a cloth, spices and tobacco merchant, as well as a butcher married to Kitel (abt 1684-) with sons Löbl 14, Chaim 12, daughters Klickel 10, Bayerle 8, Plümel 5, Kolde 2 OR in Usov, Moravia: Israel Markus in latter part of 1600's, Abraham Markus in 1722, peddler Michl Markus in 1753 OR Jakub Markus mentioned in Boskovice, Moravia history OR Johannes Markus (ca. 1625-) OR Gerschtl Markus von 1678, auß Öesterreich OR Markus Wolff hat die alte öedung Wolff Markus 1671 angenommen on Judaica Bohemiae XXXIX/2003 OR Esther Israels Markus (± 1702 Hoogeveen - 1800 Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland) OR the Markus family diaspora archives P-31 and the Jewish community in Rees (northwestern Germany)1623-1937 OR Veit Markus aus Malá Skála (Kleinskal) Marktstände erwerben (im J. 1760 bzw. 1775) OR Andreas Markus (bef 1770 Zbyslavice /Baislowitz near Ostrava - aft 1832 Kyjovice) + Rosalie Scheier (1769 Tìškovice - aft 1832 Kyjovice) family on Švidrnoch genealogy site OR in 1793 Jewish census of Bohemia: Jakob Markus - living in Kundratitz, Kaurzimer Kreis, a cantor from Komitat Neugrader in Hungary. Jakob Markus - a long story about him, a tobacco concessioner living in Kaurzimer Kreis in Gut Loschan but deceased father coming from Betschwar/Becvary nr Kolin. Baruch Markus and Joseph Markus from Klein Barschow in Bidschover Kreis. Anna Markus from Libochowiz. Enoch Markus, an orphan living with his grandfather HECHT in Suchomast, Berouner Kreis. Jakob Markus, a leather dealer from Herrschaft Kumburg, Leitmeritzer Kreis. Samuel Markus, a teacher in Wrsetz, Leitmeritzer Kreis. Jol Markus from Vogstadt, Germany - living in Teinitzl, Rakonitzer Kreis OR Joseph Markus (1853-1926 Praha) houslista a čestný ředitel orchestru Pražského národního divadla OR Marcus/Markus on answeres.com?

          • Cheyle MARKUS + Joseph Wolf GRATZ
            • Bejle GRATZ Born: 1737 Died: 1818 age 81 est + Joseph Abraham (see OBERLÄNDER family) Born: 1725 Died: 1787 age 62 est.

              Note: any relation to "..Prague ghetto yeshivot.. In 1688 this post was filled by: Wolf Gräz.." OR the Gratz family (see family tree), previously possibly named Gräetzer, Grätzer or Grätza of the city/town Gratz. They were prominent in the affairs of the city of Philadelphia and descendants from a long line of respected Rabbis: R' Zev Wolf, R' Jacob (Koppel) Bloch, R' Jonathan Bloch (1640 Cracow-1722 Langendorf, Upper Silesia) resided in Prague in his youth, moved to Langendorf in 1664, children: Frumatt and Solomon Gratz (Shelomo Zalman). Solomon's children: Barnard Gratz (1738 Langendorf - 1801) emigrated to Philadelphia 1754 & Michael Gratz (1740-1811), Hyman, Jonathan, Leah (living in 1801), Judith(Gitel) m. R' Zevi Hirsch Bloch (Henry). Michael's daughter Rebecca Gratz (Lancaster, PA-) was the 7th of 12 children. *see Bernhard Brilling 1939 newspaper article and Marcus Brann 1915 Festschrift excerpt re; the Gratz and Bloch families as well as Gratz College and Gratz names on JewishEncyclopedia where according to some authorities, the name Gratz derives from Styria, Austria or Grätz in Posen , Poland or most likely Gratz in Austrian Silesia OR ..Year 1611 to seyn, while Rudolph ruled, Rabbi Löwe upper rabbi and the bounteous Mardochai ben Samuel Meisel führer of the municipality.. However, Heinrich Graetz represented another thesis: Rudolf II is acquisitive and has been unscrupulous.. OR Johann Wolfgang Gratz (10.25.1788 Viernau-) + Eva Barbara Schwäblein (1792 Viernau, Sachsen-) genealogy OR Johanna Gratz (-) married 1758 + Bernhard Laimer (1730-) OR Anne Marie Graz/Gratz/ Gratzen (1779 Nienburg? - 1838 Rotenburg) OR Peter Alois Gratz (1769 Mittelberg/Allgäu - 1849 Darmstadt) OR Magdalena Gratz (Matzenheim, France - 1784 Osthausen) married 1757 + Matheus Brisach (1728-1776 Osthausen) OR Rabbi in Posen Tzvi Hirsh Graetz aka Dr. Heinrich (Hirsch) Graetz (1817 Xions/Ksiaz or Zerkowi, Posen/Poznań - 1891 Breslau) + Marie Monasch of Krotoschin. Tzvi is a son of a butcher Jakob Graetz (-1876) + Vogel Hirsch of Wollstein OR the Grätz family of Neibsheim (1661-) OR Johann Jakob Grätz war auch Müller in Bebelsheim und wird erstmals 1698 im KKB genannt OR the Gratz individuals on Papers of Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818 - 1906) OR Jindřich Gratz (abt 1816-) of Voděrady (Rychnov nad Kněžnou near Hradec Králové) + Kateřina Krystufová on Rod & Clan?

              Grätz: "..Town in the province of Posen, Prussia, with a population of 3,784, of whom 319 are Jews (1903). The Jewish community there is one of the oldest in the province. Jews are mentioned in the city charter of April 9, 1594. In 1634 the tailors' gild of Grätz permitted two Jews of Posen to settle in the city and to open a tailor-shop.. ..During the "northern war" (1700-21) the community was almost entirely destroyed, and its rabbi, Judah Löb, who had been called in 1701, was obliged to flee to Frankfort-on-the-Oder.. ..Rabbis in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Simon b. Israel Ashkenazi (c. 1677); Benjamin Wolf b. Joseph Joske (c. 1689); Judah Löb b. Solomon, previously darshan at Prague, and subsequently rabbi at Schneidemühl (c. 1699); Phinehas Selig b. Moses (dayyan of the German community at Amsterdam in 1708); Sanvel Spira of Lemberg; Gershon b. Jehiel of Landsberg, who at Friedberg in 1742 called himself ex-rabbi of Grätz; Jacob b. Zebi Hirsch (1743); Marcus Baruch Auerbach.."

• Zalel Bezalel LOEB + Regina Golda (?) Died: 1603 in Prague
• Baruch LOEB + Beilah (?)

*see Miscellaneous Names page from Judaica Bohemiae documents

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