Year End Summary: Thirty New Lineages Added to GENI Rabbinical yDNA Index in 2022

This year we added lineages for the following historical figures:

R' Jacob Joshua Falk, Pnei Yehoshua bca 1680: (tentative) Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk - The Pnei Yehoshua
R’ Yom Tov Benet bca 1600 Rebbe Yom Tov Benet Jaffe/Yufe
R' Azriel Ben Yehuda Zeev bca 1700 Rabbi Azriel Ben Yehuda
R’ Meir Yechezkel Holzberg bca 1881: possible descent from Av. Eliezer HL Horowitz: Rav Meir Yechezkel Holzberg
R’ Mordechai Margolis bca 1700 R' Mordechai Margolis
R' Dovid Hahn bca 1770: lineage of Benzion Hanneman דוד האן
R' Mordechai Jaffe bca 1530: HaLevushim (tentative) Rabbi Mordechai Jaffe, Ba׳al "Halevushim"
R' Moshe Jungsztejn, HaCohen bca 1745 R. Moshe Hakohen (Jungsztejn)
R' Gershon b. Sholom HaCohen bca 1495: Founder of Gershuni Printing House Gerson Herman Salomon Katz Cohen
R’ Oury Cahen, of Metz bca 1580: Oury David Abraham Cahen
R' Samuel Cowan of Virginia, USA bca 1787: Has No Geni Profile
R' David Hanau HaCohen bca 1588: Jacobi’s Cohen “A” Line David Hanau Hakohen
R’ Ysroel Meir Kagan bca 1807: 'Chofetz Chaim' Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen (Chofetz Chaim)
R’ Yakov Yosef HaCohen bca 1580: Rosh Yeshiva Turisk Yaakov Yosef Kahana
R’ Tsvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi bca 1658: ‘Chacham Tsvi’ (tentative) Chacham Tzvi Hirsch Ashkenazi
R’ Yakov Jaffe-Margaliot bca 1430 (tentative) Rabbi Jacob Margolioth, of Nuremberg
R’ Shlomo Rotenberg, HaCohen bca 1800 Shlomo Rotenberg
R’ Zvi HaKohen Kopschitz bca 1896: Rav of Diskin Orphanage R' Zvi HaKohen Kopschitz, Rabbi of the Diskin Orphanage
R’ Yisreal Hillel Westreich bca 1720 R' Yisrael Hillel Westreich, A.B.D of Sędziszów
R’ Mordechai Marcus Bohrer bca 1895 Rabbiner Dr. Mordechai Marcus Bohrer
R’ Ysroel ben Eliezer bca 1698: ‘Baal Shem Tov’ Baal Shem Tov, Israel ben Eliezar Isserles
R’ Moses ben Ysroel Isserles bca 1530: ReMa (tentative) Rabbi Moses ben Israel Isserles, "RaMA"
R’ Jacob HaCohen Kahn bca 1640: of Ribeauville Rabbi Jacob HaCohen
R’ Nahum Bloom bca 1820 Nahum Bloom
R’ Uri Lipman Fraenkel bca 1620 "HaGaon HaGadol" Rabbi Uri Lipman Fraenkel
R’ Yitzchak Dov HaLevy Bamberger bca 1807: ‘Wurzburger Rav’ Seligmann Yitzchak Dov Halevi Bamberger, The Würzburger Rav.
R’ Samson Raphael Hirsch bca 1808: Chief Rabbi Moravia, Silesia Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
R’ Zachariah Mendel bca 1520: of Posen, lienage of R’ Klausner ‘HaNavi’ https://tinyurl.com/4rahj6xv
R’ Dov Ber bca 1630: of Plunge, lineage of R’ Ysroel Salanter Dov Ber
R’ Moshe HaCohen bca 1730: ABD Kamai, lineage of ‘Cheshek Shlomo’ HaRav Moshe HaCohen, AB"D Kamai

Lineage details for these rabbis and about 50 others are available by viewing the file named 'yDNA_Rabbinical', available on the 'Photos and Documents' page. The index is still seeking to identify about 130 more lineages.

Matching to these lineages can be an effective research strategy, not only for rabbinical history scholars, but also for everyday genealogists looking to connect with a deeper ancestral tradition. Your participation could also make the index more accurate for future scholars and researchers.