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Jaffe

[edit] Origin and history

Jaffe, Joffe family

Family of rabbis, scholars, and communal workers, with members in Germany, Austria, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, and the United States. It traces its descent from Mordecai Jaffe (1530-1612), author of the "Lebushim", and his uncle Moses Jaffe, both descendants of an old family of Prague. According to Joseph Lewinstein, rabbi at Serock, government of Warsaw, the progenitor of the Jaffes was Samuel ben Elhanan, a grandson of Isaac ha-Zaḳen (died at the end of the 12th century), whose father was Samuel, the son-in-law of Rabbi Meïr of Ramerupt, the father of Jacob Tam, grandson of Rashi. Lewinstein's conclusions, however, have not yet been substantiated.

From Abraham, the father of Mordecai ("Lebushim"), came the Jaffe branch proper, while another Mordecai, the son of Moses Jaffe, settled in Cracow, where he married the daughter of Joel Singer and assumed the name of his father-in-law, in accordance with the custom current among the Jews of Poland. His descendants, often called Ḳalmanḳes, were sometimes confounded with the descendants of the author of the "Lebushim," and it is difficult to ascertain to which of the two houses some of the later Jaffes belong. Again, many Jaffes have taken the names of Itzig, Meier, Margolies, Schlesinger, Rosenthal, Wallerstein, etc., while many distant relatives, really of other houses, have preferred to take the popular name of Jaffe. In the tables given below these questions have been elucidated in so far as documentary or authoritative private evidence has permitted. Isaac and Eliezer, two other brothers of Abraham ben Joseph (father of the author of the "Lebushim"), settled in Italy, and there became the progenitors of the Italian branch of the Jaffes. Three daughters of Mordecai Jaffe ("Lebushim") married the sons of three of the most prominent Jewish families of that time (see Table II.), and in this way the Jaffe family became related to the Wahls, Epsteins, and Günzburgs. The daughter of Moses Jaffe was the wife of Samuel Sirkes. Later the Jaffes united with the families of Katzenellenbogen, Schorr, Heilprin, Bacharach, Deiches, Rosenthal, Minz, etc. The following is a partial enumeration of the members of both branches of the family, the descendants of Moses Jaffe being indicated by K (= ḳalmanḳes):Jaffe is a family name may refer to:

  • Aaron Jaffe (K):
  • Aaron Jaffe (K) of Uman:
  • Abraham Abba ben Israel Jaffe:
  • Anselm Benjamin Jaffe:
  • Benno Jaffe: 1840-1923. chemist, councilman in Berlin-Charlottenburg. -> Jaffe-Strasse Berlin
  • Daniel Jaffe.
  • David Jaffe:
  • Eleazar Jaffe:
  • Eliezer Jaffe:
  • Eliezer (Lazar) Jaffe:
  • Enoch Zundel Jaffe (called also Zundel Ḥalfon):
  • Frank Jaffe:
  • Isaac b. Joseph Jaffe-Ashkenazi:
  • Israel ben Aaron Jaffe (Saba):
  • Israel b. Aaron Jaffe (Zuṭa: K):
  • Israel David b. Mordecai Margolies-Schlesinger-Jaffe (called also David Sered):
  • Israel b. Zalkind b. Isaac Jaffe:
  • Israel b. Ẓebi Hirsch Jaffe (called also Israel Weksler):
  • Jedidiah b. Abraham Abe Jaffe:
  • Joel ben Samuel Jaffe.
  • Joseph b. Moses Jaffe:
  • Judah Löb b. Shabbethai Jaffe:
  • Kalonymus ben Mordecai Jaffe:
  • Kalonymus b. Moses Jaffe:
  • Max Jaffé:
  • Mordecai Hirsch:
  • Mordecai Jaffe:
  • Mordecai Jaffe:
  • Mordecai (Marcus) Jaffe of Berlin:
  • Mordecai Jaffe of Brody:
  • Mordecai Jaffe-Margolies-Schlesinger of Vienna:
  • Mordecai Gimpel Jaffe:
  • Moses Jaffe of Berlin:
  • Moses Jaffe of Pinsk:
  • Moses b. Eliezer Jaffe:
  • Moses b. Eliezer Jaffe:
  • Moses ben Issachar:
  • Moses b. Mordecai (b. Joseph):
  • Sir Otto Jaffé:
  • Philipp Jaffé:
  • Samuel b. Isaac Jaffe:
  • Shabbethai b. Abraham Jaffe:
  • Solomon (Zalman) b. Jacob:
  • Theodor Julius Jaffé:
  • Tobiah b. Mordecai (b. Joseph of Plungian):
  • Ẓebi Hirsch Jaffe:
  • Ẓebi Hirsch Saba (K):
  • Ẓemaḥ b. Jacob of Wilna:
  • Ẓemaḥ Schön:

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