Gaon of Vilna Genealogy

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Gaon of Vilna Genealogy

Ancestry of Gaon of Vilna, descendent of Rashi (1040-1105) and from Dovid Hamelech, see the Frumkin, Nevies, Bender family tree .pdf. or Ashkenazic tree and partial list of surnamesthat trace their descent back to King David. Sources: "Royal Descent: Identifying the Vilna Gaon's Forbears and Descendants" AND "Direct Descendants of King David and the Princes of Septimania" AND "Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Family", book by Chaim Freedman published by Avotaynu AND Dr. Simon Braybrook OR see Vilnius (Vilna) on Jewish Encyclopedia or our Vilne or Vilnius - Jerusalem of Lithuania

Rabbi David ASHKENAZI Died 1645 "Rosh Yeshiva" in Lemberg, Poland. *may be same as R. David, son of Mordekhai Ashkenazi mentioned in Klilat Yofi + (?) their son Moshe below

R' Moshe KREMER Born: 1614 Died: 1687/8 Av Beit Din (chief rabbi) of Vilna/Wilna, current Vilnius, Lithuania + (?)

R' Eliyahu (Eliahu) "Khassid" Died: 1710/20 known as “Khassid” due to his piety + (?) Father: R' Petakhiah Grandfather: R' Moshe "Rivkas" (1596-1671) came to Vilna from Prague in the early 17th century. During the Cossack massacres in 1655, Rivkas fled to Amsterdam, where he completed his commentary on the Shulkhan Arukh called "Be-er Hagolah" G-grandfather: R' Naftali Tzvi Hersh (Fasi) ( - 1601 Prague) "Sofer" (scribe) of the Kahal & Telza (see Katzenellenbogen family) G-ggrandfather: R' Petakhiah ( - 1598) "Sofer" in Prague G-gggrandfather: Yosef "Hakhaver" of Ofen (later Budapest), one of the members of the Jewish community of Vienna exiled to Prague in 1559 davidicdynasty
- R' Yissakhar (Isacher) BAER (or BER) aka "Yissakhar Dov" Died: 1737
  - R' Schloma (Schlomo) ZALMAN (Zalmen?) Born ca.1695 in Vilna. Died: 1758 in Vilna + Treina (?) Born: ca.1700 in Seltz (today, Selets near Grodno), Belarus (Byelorussia) Father: Meir of Seltz. Grandfather: Rabbi Benyamin WOLF (Ginzberg) of Seltz *5 sons and 1 daughter
    - R' Gaon of Vilna Eliyahu (Eliahu, Elie) ben Solomon (Shloime) ZALMAN Born: Apr 23, 1720 in Belarus. Died: Oct 9, 1797 in Vilnus. Gaon of all Gaons "The Prince of Princes, Chariot of Israel and its Horsemen" + Khana of Keidan. Born: abt 1724 in Kėdainiai (Keidan), Lithuania. Died: 1782 in Vilna, Lithuania. Father: Yehudah Leib of Keidan *2nd Wife: Gittel LUNTZ Born: in Kelm, Lithuania. Married: aft. 1782, marriage without children Father: Meir Luntz
      
      Note: JE, Index of articles and Wikipedia: "Elijah (Eliyahu) ben Shlomo Zalman, known as the Vilna Gaon, (also the Gaon of Vilna or "The Gra" from the Hebrew acronym "Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu"), (April 23, 1720 - October 9, 1797), was one of the most outstanding rabbis in recent centuries. He was an exceptional Talmudist, Halachist and Kabbalist, and was the foremost leader of non-hasidic world Jewry. He is commonly referred to in Hebrew as ha'Gaon ha'Chasid mi'Vilna, "the saintly genius from Vilna. He was one of the most influential Rabbinic authorities since the Middle Ages, and – although he is counted among the sages known as the Acharonim – he is held by many authorities after him as belonging to the Rishonim (Rabbinic authorities of the Middle Ages).."
      - daughter Born: abt 1741 in Vilna. Died: 1756 in Vilna *recorded in the register of the charitable fund set up by the Gaon's ancestor Rabbi Moshe Rivkas
      - Khiena of Pinsk Born: 1748 in Vilna. Died: 1806 in Pinsk, Belarus + Zalmen Zelig CHINITZ Born: 1735 in Vilna. Died: 1803 in Pinsk. Parents: Aharon Zev ABARBANEL & Tova (?)
        
        Shmuel CHINITZ + Naomi HAKOHEN Born: in Pinsk. Father: Yaakov Hakohen *2 Husband: Khaike Malke (?) Born: in Bialystok, Poland
        
        Tsvi Hersh CHINITZ Died: age 3
        
        Masha CHINITZ + Aharon (?) Father: Leib Pinkhas (?)
        
        Yitskhak CHINITZ Born: abt 1765 in Pinsk + Peshe RABINOV Father: Yosef Khaim Rabinov
        
        Aharon Tsvi CHINITZ Born: abt 1770 in Pinsk + Rukhl (?) Father: Khaim (?)
        
        Moshe Khaim CHINITZ + Itke (?) Father: Zalmen (?)
        
        Gittel CHINITZ + David LEVIN Father: Shakhne Levin
        
        Golda CHINITZ + Zev ROTHSTEIN Father: Leibl Rothstein
        
        Shraga Feivel CHINITZ Died: age 12 in Pinsk
        
        Nakhum CHINITZ + Itke (?) Father: Meir (?)
        
        Shlomo David CHINITZ + Nekhame GELDENBERG Born: in Pinsk. Father: Reuven Geldenberg
        
        *2nd husband of Kheina: Moshe of Pinsk. Died: 1836 in Pinsk. Parents: Yehuda Leib of Pinsk & Nekhama (?)
        
        Avraham of Pinsk + Feigl FEIGELBAUM Born: in Pinsk. Father: Avraham Feigelbaum *the Neches and Zabinovsky families are descended from this branch
        
        son/daughter Born: abt 1790 *theoretical connection with the family of Yekhezkel (Haskell) Landau which held an oral tradition of descent from the Gaon's daughter Khana/Khiena as per "Unconfirmed Connections" in the book
        
        Yedidiah PENCHUK Born: abt 1780 in Pinsk. Died: abt 1850 *adopted the surname Penchuk when he settled in Kobrin. The Penchuk, Palefsky, Bayuk, Pomerantz, Chwat and Mintz families are descended from this branch
      - Peisa-Bassia of Disna Born: abt 1750 in Vilna, Lithuania. Died: in Disna, Belarus + Tsvi Hersh DONCHIN Died: abt 1800 in Disna. Father: Yitskhak Donchin, ABD Disna, descendant of a prominent and ancient rabbinic family which traced its ancestry to Portugal, Spain and the House of King David
        
        Ber DONCHIN Died: as a child
        
        Zalmen Ber DONCHIN
        
        Yitskhak DONCHIN + Khana DON-YECHIA Father: Barukh Don-Yechia
        
        daughter DONCHIN Born: abt 1785 in Disna + Zerakh HOROWITZ Born: abt 1785 in Lachowitz, Belarus. Died: abt 1820 in Lachowitz. Father: Elyakim Getzel Halevy Horowitz
      - daughter Born: abt 1752in Vilna + Yekhezkel HaLEVY Father: Shmuel HaLevy *they had no children & therefore divorced
      - Shlomo-Zalmen VILNER Born: 1758 in Vilna. Died: in childbirth abt 1777 + Rakhel KISSIN Born: abt 1758 in Vitebsk, Russia. Died: abt 1777 in Vilna. Died: abt 1780 in Vilna. Father: Yisrael Kissin of Vitebsk, sometimes confused in sources with Yisrael of Shklov
        
        Treina VILNER Born: abt 1776 in Vilna + Tsvi Hersh LIPSHITZ *the Lipshitz, Grad, Segal, Olkenitsky, Helman, Gurwicz and Kushilevky families are descended from this branch
        
        Rakhel? VILNER Born: abt 1777 in Vilna. Died: abt 1816 + Yaakov BARDIN Born: abt 1770 Father: Yekhezkel Bardin *the Bardin family is reputed to have originated in France or Italy where members were engaged in the silk trade
      - Yehudah Leib VILNER Born: 1764 in Vilna. Died: 1816 in Neustadt- Sugind, Lithuania + (?) Born: in Alinka, Lithuania. Father: Rabbi Avraham of Serhei & prior Lazdei Mother: Esther JAFFE, descendent of Jaffe and Bachrach families. *see Jaffe (Joffe) on Jewish Encyclopedia
        
        Ester VILNER Born: abt 1785 in Serhei, Lithuania. Died: abt 1860 possibly in Grafskoy, Russia + Rabbi Zev Velvel (Halevy) KOMISAR Born: abt 1785 in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. Died: abt 1834 in Kovno. *ancestors of three families: Komisaruk (Komesaroff), Zhmood and Grinblat, Zev came from a prominent family of scholars and communal leaders in Kovno and is the 1st generation of the Komisar/Komisaruk/ Komesaroff families
        
        Golda VILNER Born: abt 1786 in Serhei + Yitskhak FRIEDLANDER Born: abt 1783 in Virbalin, Lithuania. Father: Tsvi Hirsh Friedlander "Morenu HaRav" in a prenumeranten list for the town of Verbelov published in Ratzon Yireim Vilna 1859. Mother: (?) descendant of Gaon of Vilna, possibly Yitskhak Friedlander's wife Golda was a daughter of Rabbi Yehuda-Leib of Serhei, 2nd son of the Gaon
        
        Gittel VILNER Born: abt 1787 Died: 1857 in Vilna + Yitskhak DANZIG Born: abt 1785 in Vilna. Died: 1853 in Vilna Father: Rabbi Avraham "Khaye Adam" Danzig, one of the prominent students of the Gaon of Vilna, whose father left his native Danzig to settle in Vilna. Mother: Sarah SEGAL
        
        Yosef Yekhezkel VILNER "aka Yosef Yekhezkel" adopted the surname Vilner/Wilner Born: 1788 in Serhei. Died: 1849 in Serhei + Beila SHACHOR Father: Yisrael Isser Shachor
        
        Tuviah JURBARSKY Born: abt 1789 in Serhei. Died: 1867 in Jerusalem, Israel, buried: Har Hazeitim, Jerusalem + Ryszla (?) Born: 1788 Died: 1848 in Jurburg, Lithuania. Parents: Shepsel (?) & Gruny (?), recorded as Jurborskij, possibly source her husbands surname or resince of parents
        
        Yissakhar Ber VILNER Born: abt 1791 in Serhei, merchant. Died: 1845 in Warsaw, Poland + Golda (?) Died: 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Parents: Reuven (?) & Taube (?)
        
        Freidel VILNER Born: abt 1791 in Serhei. Died: in Virbalin, Lithuania + Yitskhak WARSZAWSKY Born: 1791 in Virbalin, Lithuania, stallholder, peddlar. Father: Hersh Warszawsky of Virbalin
        
        Refael VILNER Born: abt 1793 in Vistenitz? *Noakh Yashinovsky stated, that his grandmother Sarah and her husband Avraham went to Vistenitz to make peace between Refael (son of my brother-in-law Reb Leib, son of the Gaon) and his wife
        
        Menka VILNER Born: in Serhei + Sholem (Friedman) MENKIN Born: in Zager, Lithuania. Died: abt 1841 in Zager, Lithuania. Father: Moshe Friedman *surnames used by descendants: Friedman derived from Sholem, Monfried which is Friedman in reverse, Menkin after Sholem's wife, Zagorsky after the town where the family lived & Solomon used in England, variations used to evade conscription
        
        Hinda VILNER Born: in Serhei + Rabbi Yosef COHEN
      - Abraham (Avraham) ben Elijah of Vilna Born: abt 1750 or 1765 in Vilna. Died: Dec 14, 1808 in Vilna + Sarah MINDES-LIPSHITZ Father: Noakh "Mindes" Lipshitz Mother: Minda PESSELES
        Note: JE: ".. ..According to the custom of the time, he married at the age of twelve, but continued his studies in the Talmudic colleges in other cities, and after a few years returned home, where he completed his studies under his father. Like his father, he never officiated as rabbi, but was a highly respected member of the Jewish community of Vilna, in which he held various offices.. ..The last-mentioned were edited by his great-grandson Elijah, who calls himself Landau."
      - Tauba of Dubrovno Born: abt 1768 in Vilna. Died: abt 1812 in Dubrovno, Belarus. youngest daughter + Uri Shraga FEIBUSH of Dubrovno. Father: Shlomo (?) ABD Dubrovno. Tauba was his 2nd wife, others were Sarah Khaya, daughter of David, son of Pinkhas ben Azriel, author of Nakhalat Azriel and Feiga, sister-in-law of Yitskhak KHALAVITZER
        
        Dov-Ber BLOCH Born: abt 1787 in Dubrovno, Belarus + Batsheva (?)
        
        Perl? Born: abt 1790 in Dubrovno + Shabtai PERELS Father: Barukh Bendet of Haslawitz, brother of Rabbi Menkhem-Mendel of Shklov
        
        Eliyahu REEZEL Born: abt.1797 in Dubrovno. Died: 1837 in Safed, Israel. Settled in Safed in 1836. *legend says that Gaon of Vilna saved him from the earthquake of 1837 which left him with a limp, while his wife and several children perished and is survived by two sons, who returned to Europe. His grave is believed to record his descent from the Gaon
        
        Khaim Naftali (Hyam Bloch) PHILLIPS Born: 1812 in Dubrovno. occupation: cigar manufacturer, hotelier. Died 1877 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia + Julia MEYER Born: 1816 in London, England. Married: 1850 in London, England. Father: Jacob Meyer Mother: Hannah SOLOMON Died: 1913 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
      - unknown + Tsvi Hersh FRIEDLANDER Born: abt 1755 in Virbalin, Lithuania. *referred to as Morenu Harav in a prenumeranten list published in Retzon Yireiim (Vilna, 1859)
        
        Yitskhak FRIEDLANDER Born: abt 1783 in Virbalin + Golda VILNER Born: abt 1786 in Serhei, Lithuania. Father: Yehudah Leib Vilner of Serhei, 2nd son of the Gaon?
    - Yissakhar Ber KLATZKI Born: abt 1721 Died: 1807 in Vilna + Malka GINZBERG Father: Asher Ginzberg Mother: Yuta KLATZES
      Note: see Klacko family genealogy & the comment on Krasne guestbook ".. There was another Rabbi Mordkhe Klaczko in Vilna, who died about 1839. He was a grandson of Issakhar Ber Klatzki, the brother of Reb Elie ben Shloime-Zalman, more known as the Vilna Gaon. This coincidence suggests that both Rabbies Mordkhe Klaczko had a common ancestor called Mordkhe. Rabbi Mordkhe Klaczko Meltzer was a rabbi also in Calvaria, from 1852 until his death 1883. Calvaria was merged as a part of Vilna, after having been in the 19th century just a border town of. There is therefore no real difference between both destinations."
      - Kalonymus Kalman KLATZKI Died: 1821 in Vilna + Leah (?) Father: Tsvi Yaakov (?) Died: 1823 in Vilna
        
        Asher Hertz KLATZKI Born: 1797 in Vilna. Died: 1866 *dayan in Vilna
        
        Yehoshua Heshel KLATZKI + Guta Miriam ROZENFELD Born: in Amdur, Lithuania. Father: Tuviah Rozenfeld
        
        Eliyahu Moshe KLATZKI
        
        Ita KLATZKI + Moshe Aharon ZONENBERG Father: Zundel Zonenberg
      - Mordekhai KLATZKI Died: 1839 in Vilna + Rakhel (?) Father: Yitskhak (?) *renowned scholar in Vilna
        
        Asher KLATZKI + Hene (?) Born: in Vasilishok, Lithuania. Died: 1831 in Vilna. Father: Yaakov Koppel. Hene was known as "Hene Rakhel Malka's" after her mother-in-law and the latter's mother-in-law
        
        Khana Reizel KLATZKI died in Vilna + Aharon NATANSON Born: 1810 in Grodno, Russia. Died: 1851 in Vilna. *Khana was his 3rd wife
      - Miriam Mirel KLATZKI Died: 1835 in Vilna + (?)
        
        children?
      - Rivele KLATZKI Died: 1856 in Vilna + Benyamin Wolf (Ginzberg) KLATZKI Born: 1788 in Vilna. Died: 1877 in Vilna. *one of the famous leaders of the Jewish community in Vilna Father: Shimon Ginzberg
        
        Zalmen Eliyahu KLATZKI *possessed manuscripts written by his grandfather Rabbi Yissakhar Ber and was the only son who survived to adulthood + Lieba Gittel BERESHULS Born: in Brod, Poland
        
        Khaya Leah KLATZKI Died: 1860 in Vilna + Arye Yehuda Leib DANZIG Born: 1816 in Vilna. Died: 1880 in Vilna. Father: Eliyahu Danzig Mother: Fruma TREVES
        
        daughter KLATZKI
        
        daughter KLATZKI
      - daughter KLATZKI + Yaakov KAHANA Born: 1764 in Amsterdam, Holland. Died: 1826 in Vilna. Father: Avraham Kahana Mother: daughter of LOWENSTAM *Yaakov was brought up by his maternal grandfather Rabbi Shaul ABD Amsterdam
        
        Eliyahu KAHANA Died: 1821 in Vilna
        
        Freida KAHANA Died: 1816 in Vilna
      - Reizel KLATZKI Died: 1833 in Vilna + Azriel ZIV Born: abt 1760 Father: Gershon Mendel Ziv, ABD Birz. *Reizel was the most probable link with the Ziv (Sieff) and Grad families, based on the tradition related to Lord Israel Sieff by his great-grandfather that he was descended from a brother of the Gaon of Vilna. Sieff recalled the name of the Gaon's brother as Joshua, which was probably a distortion of Yissakhar Ber. Azriel: the most likely connection between the family of Lord Israel Sieff and Gershon Mendel Ziv of Rassein. There is a conflict in the sources with regard to the identity of Azriel's father
        
        Efraim ZIV Born: abt 1782 *appears in 3 Prenumeranten entries in Ateret Shaul (S. Luria, Vilna, 1841) + (?)
        
        Yosef ZIV of Kroz
        
        David ZIV of Kroz
        
        Matityahu ZIV of Kroz
        
        Shlomo Zalmen Leib ZIV Born: abt 1800 *prenumeranten list in "Lekorot Hair Rassein Urabaneha" (M. Markovitch, Warsaw 1913) includes a Zalmen Ziv who may have been identical with Shlomo Zalmen Leib Ziv
        
        Peena ZIV + (?) GRAD
    - Avraham RAGOLER Born: 1722 in Vilna. Died: 1804 in Neustadt-Schirwindt, Lithuania + Hinda (?)
      - Gershon RAGOLER Died: 1831 in Shadova
        
        Shmuel RAGOLER
        
        Arye Leib RAGOLER
        
        Shlomo Zalman SHOCHET
      - Eliyahu RAGOLER Born: abt 1745 Died: in Neustadt-Sugunt, Lithuania + Gita (Gisha) PESSELES widow of Shlomo Zalmen, brother of Khaim of Volozhin. Father: Mikhal Pesseles of Vilna OR Eizik ben Leib of Kretinga
        
        Shlomo Zalmen RAGOLER Died: in Neustadt- Sugunt + Khaya Sarah LASDINER Father: Yehoshua Reb Yankel Lasdiner, appears in Rivlin's "Reb Moshe Rivkas" as "Reb Yaakov-Yankele Lasdiner." The handwritten notes in the Rivlin archive refer to him as "the Gvir Yehoshua Reb Yankele Lasdiner". Lasdiner may indicate that he came from Lazdei
        
        Avraham RAGOLER
        
        Meir RAGOLER Meir Died: 1842 in Jerusalem, Israel. Author of "Derekh Avot, Nakhalat Avot" and commentaries on "Pirkei Avot" based on the commentaries of the Gaon of Vilna + Nekha (?) Died: 1868 in Jerusalem, Israel
        
        unknown RAGOLER Born: abt 1770 in Neustadt- Sugunt, Lithuania
        
        Mikhal RAGOLER Born: 1796 in Neustadt-Sugunt. Died: 1878 in Jerusalem. Buried: Har Hazeitim, Jerusalem
        
        Treina RAGOLER + Yitskhak Eizik LEVINSON Father: Arye Leib Levinson, ABD Kretinga. *Treina was his 2nd wife
        
        Yissakhar Ber RAGOLER *the Romm family descend from this branch
        
        Khana Gisha RAGOLER + Rabbi Shraga Feivel SHACH
        
        Reizel RAGOLER + Arye-Leib (?)
        
        Tsvi Hersh TZINAS M"M, Polangen. Died: in Polangen, Lithuania
        
        Khaya Sarah RAGOLER + Rabbi MARK *the Behrman and Levy families descend from this branch
        
        Arye Leib HAMBURGER "aka Leib Halberstadt" Born: 1796 in Neustadt- Sugunt, Lithuania. Died: 1889 in Jerusalem, Israel. Buried: Har Hazeitim, Jerusalem
      - Moshe (Khassid) HINDAS + Rivka Riva (?)
        
        Eliyahu ABELES "aka Reb Eliya Reb Abbale's" Died: 1880 in Kėdainiai (Keidan), Lithuania
        
        Shlomo RAGOLER
        
        Natan Nota RAGOLER
        
        unknown? + son Volpa
        
        daughter RAGOLER
      - Shmuel (Hakatan) RAGOLER
        
        Shalom RABINOWITZ + Khava (Eva) (?) Father: David (?)
        
        Keila Treina RAGOLER + (?)
      - Yehuda Leib RAGOLER Died: 1808 in Shklov, Russia
      - unknown? Born: abt 1750
        
        Yaakov Yisrael HEILPRIN ABD Khmelnik
        
        unknown?
        
        unknown FEINSTEIN Born: abt 1775
        
        Avraham Shmuel GRINGORT Born: abt 1780. *his son's tombstone on the Mount of Olives states that he was a grandson of Rabbi Avraham Ragoler, brother of the Gaon of Vilna
        
        unknown? Born: abt 1785
    - Meir of Yanishok Born: abt 1724
    - Moshe of Podzelva Born: abt 1725 *various Kremer families claim a relationship with the Gaon descend from Moshe of Podzelva
      - son (?) Born: abt 1750 in Podzelva, Lithuania.
        
        son (?) Born: abt 1775 in Podzelva
        
        Eliyahu KREMER *the Neeman family descende from this branch
    - daughter of Shlomo-Zalmen Born: abt 1730 *ref. connection with Volpa, Epstein, Finfer families + Manush (?) *appears in biography of Rabbi Pesakh Finfer and introductions to his books and those of his brother Yitskhak Finfer as their ancestor<
      - Riva (?) Born: abt 1750 + (?) *preserved in the oral traditions of her descendants as "the First Muma Riva.", significance of "first" is unclear, as is "Muma" which means "aunt" in Yiddish
        
        Gershon (?) Born: abt 1775 *claimed by his descendants to be a "great-nephew" of the Gaon of Vilna through the Gaon's sister. The Epstein family descend from this branch
      - Shlomo ZALMAN Born: abt 1760 + Pera (?)
        
        Yosef Benyamin KRETCHMER Born: abt 1785 + Etel SHKEMER Father: Avraham Shkemer. *the Volpa and Finfer families are descended from this branch
- R' Tzvi Hersh Died: 1765 *ancestor of several prominent families, including Rivlin and Eliash, who held influential positions in the Vilna community
- R' Moshe Died: 1765

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