Harkavy

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Harkavy, or Harkavi (Гаркави, הרכבי) is a Russo-Jewish family. According to a tradition current in the family, the family began with Mordecai Jaffe, author of the "Lebushim", whose immediate ancestor was Joseph of Turetz (d. 1778). ^[1] The first member of the family to assume the name "Harkavy" was Gershon of Nowogrudok (d. 1824), son of Joseph of Turetz.

Other members of the Harkavy family include:

• Abraham Harkavy (or Avraam / Albert Eliyahu ben Yaakov (Yakovlevich) Harkavy) (1839-1919), historian
• Alexander Harkavy (1863 -1939), writer, Yiddish lexicographer, and linguist
• Alexander Süsskind Harkavy (1785 - 1841): Scholar and merchant; third son of Gershon Harkavy
• Allan Harkavy (-), emeritus physicist
• Deborah Romm (see Romm) (-): Daughter of Joseph Bezaleel Harkavy, and head of the Hebrew publishing firm of Widow & Brothers Romm, of Wilna
• Elhanan Harkavy (- 1838, Jerusalem ): Eldest son of Gershon Harkavy
• Elhanan Harkavy (-): Brother of Alexander Harkavy
• Elijah Harkavy (-1827): Scholar and merchant; second son of Gershon Harkavy
• Gershon Harkavy (1823-1875): Talmudist; son of Moses Solomon Harkavy
• Gershon Harkavy (-): Son of Joseph of Turetz. He was a disciple of Elijah of Wilna. In his declining years he settled in Safed, Eretz Yisrael, where he founded a Talmudical academy, and maintained it by the proceeds of vineyards bought for the purpose. He had four sons, Elhanan, Elijah, Alexander Süsskind, and Moses Solomon.
• Hedva Harekhavi, Israeli poet and artist
• Jacob Harkavy (1799-1894): Son of Elhanan Harkavy. He was at the head of a Talmudical academy at Jerusalem for forty-three years.
• Jacob Harkavy (-): Son of Gershon Harkavy; author of a brochure in Russian on Jewish education (Wilna, 1902).
• Joseph Bezaleel Harkavy (-1873): Talmudist; son of Elhanan Harkavy. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Samuel Strashun of Wilna.
• Joseph Moses Harkavy (1812-1881): Talmudist; son of Rabbi Alexander Süsskind
• Moses Solomon Harkavy (1805-1872): Merchant and philanthropist; fourth son of Gershon Harkavy; born at Nowogrudok
• Vladimir (Wolf) Harkavy (-): Jurist at Moscow; son of Joseph Bezaleel Harkavy
• Yehoshafat Harkabi (1921-1994) was chief of Israeli military intelligence
• Zvi Harkavi

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1. ^ Turetz is a town near Nowogrudok, in the province (guberniya) of Minsk.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.

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