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Title

Branching out from Sepharad : a global journey of selected rabbinic families with biographies and genealogies / by Sarina Roffé ; [foreword by Walter Zenner]

Author

Roffé, Sarina Missry

Publication

Brooklyn, NY : Sephardic Heritage Project, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Zenner, Walter P.
• Sephardic Heritage Project.

Description

409 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Subject

• Kassin family
• Labaton family
• Hedaya family
• Jews > Genealogy
• Rabbis > Syria > Genealogy
• Rabbis > Syria > Biography
• Jews, Syrian > Genealogy
• Sephardim > Genealogy
• Sephardim > Syria > Genealogy
• Crypto-Jews
• Crypto-Jews > Iberian Peninsula
• Jews > Spain > Genealogy

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Genealogy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- The term "Sephardic Jew" -- Genealogy in the Torah -- Early history of Hebrews in Hispania (Spain) by Jaim Harlow -- Spanish Medieval History until the exulsion -- Jews of Aleppo -- The converso factor and the Kassins -- The Irish connection: an open question -- Descendants of Solomon Barbur Hakatzin - 11 generations -- Descendants of Yehuda Diogo Kassin - 7 generations -- Aleppo in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries -- The Kassins 1501-20th century -- Descendants of Senor Shelomo Kassin - 6 generations -- Descendants of Yehuda Yomtob Kassin - 6 generations -- Descendants of Rabbi Shaul A. Kassin - 2 generations -- Descendants of Abraham Kassin and Sarah Hedaya Falak - 3 generations -- Descendants fo Shelomo Kassin -- Brooklyn's Syrian Jewish community -- Rabbi Jacob S. Kassin: the early years -- The Labaton dynasty -- Descendants of Mordecai Labaton - 3 generations -- Descendants of Helphon Labaton - 6 generations -- Descendants of Eliezer Labaton - 5 generations -- Descendants of Isaac Manobla Dabah - 4 generations -- Descendants of Joseph Labaton - 2 generations -- The Hedaya Family -- Descendants of Ezra Hedaya - 5 generations -- Descendants of Yeshaya Attia - 7 generations -- The Gaon, Rabbi Jacob S. Kassin and Mazal Hedaya -- Children of Rabbi Jacob S. Kassin and Mazal Hedaya -- Rabbi Shaul J. Kassin -- Charlotte Kassin BenHaim -- Albert J. Kassin -- Isaac J. Kassin -- Meyer J. Kassin -- Moshe Morris Kassin -- Esther Kassin Hanono -- Chief Rabbi Shaul J. Kassin and Freida Seruya -- Descendants of Rabbi Shaul J. Kassin and Freida Seruya -- Today's Syrian community -- Kassin family broken ties -- Sephardic naming practices -- Relationship chart -- How to read a descendant chart -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- About the author.

ISBN

9780692845028

OCLC

• 1005957020
• SCSB-11297693

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library