{"id":2756,"date":"2024-08-09T18:16:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T02:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reiswolfesamuel.org\/?page_id=2756"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T20:27:19","slug":"katz-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reiswolfesamuel.org\/?page_id=2756","title":{"rendered":"Katz Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rabbi Akiva Hakohen Katz, ABD Salonika >> Rabbi Yitzhak HaCohen Katz [of Galata] >> Rabbi Chaim HaCohen Katz ( – 1509) == N.N. >> Rabbi Mordechai Gershon Katz (ca. 1486 – 1577) == Falka Klauber <\/a>>> Yosef HaCohen Katz, She\u2019erit Yosef of Cracow (ca. 1510 \u2013 1591) == Shprinza Altschuler<\/a> ( ? – ca. 1577) >> Rivka Katz == Mordecai Yechiel Schrentzel (<\/a>ca. 1560 \u2013 1616) >> Gittel Schrentzel (ca. 1600 \u2013 1652) == Rabbi Ephraim Fischel<\/a> (ca 1570 \u2013 1653) >> Yehudit (Jute) Leib Saba == Rabbi Arye-Leib Fischles \/ Fishls Kalusziner \/ Kloisner, (ca. 1620 \u2013 1671) >> Pearl Aryeh Leib Kloisner (ca. 1666 \u2013 1722) == Ezekiel Joshua (Yechezkia \/ Yehoshua) Feivel Teomim <\/a>(ca. 1637 \u2013 ca. 1726) >> Chaim Jonah Frankel-Teomim == Sarah Oppenheim<\/a> >> Magdelene Genendel Frankel-Teomim (1713 \u2013 1778) == Simon Isaac Bondi<\/a> (1711 \u2013 1773) >> Jonas Bondi (1732 \u2013 1765) == Bella \/ Belle Schifra >> Clara \/ Caroline Bondi (1760-1829) == Koppel Loeb of Bamberg >> Moises Loeb \/ Moritz Reis<\/a> >> Jonas Reis<\/a> == Marian Samuel<\/a> >> REIS FAMILY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabbi Yitzchak Katz,<\/em> was Chief of the Rabbinical Court of Galata. For several years he lived in Salonica with his father, Rabbi Akiva Hakohen Katzand, and after this moved to Galata, in Constantinople, and there served as Chief of the Rabbinical Court of the community of the exiles of Spain and Portugal until his death. His son was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YOSEF \/ JOSPEH HACOHEN KATZ, SHE’ERIT YOSEF (ca. 1510 in Cracow \u2013 1591) was a kohen by birth, a rabbi and Talmudist, who began his studies of the Talmud at an early age, and became the dean (rosh yeshivah) at a yeshiva founded for him by his father-in-law Moshe (Eberles) Altschuler of Prague <\/a>and Cracow (ca. 1520 \u2013 1557)). He married Schprinze \/ Shprinza Shprinze (Eberles) Altschuler and they were the direct ancestors of Moritz Reis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schprinze’s ancestor was known as Abraham Eberle Altschul. So far as is known, he was the earliest bearer of the name of Altschul. He lived in Prague toward the close of the fifteenth century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yosef \/ Joseph HaCohen Katz was the author of She’erit Yosef<\/em> (Cracow, 1590), containing responsa and discussions on various rabbinical subjects, as well as a commentary on the Mordechai tractates Nezikin, Berakot<\/em>, and Mo’ed. <\/em>In the preface, the author states that he published this work at the request of his sons, Tanhuma <\/em>and Aaron Mose<\/em>s, who were members of the Jewish community of Cracow. He also corrected the manuscript from which was printed the Aggudah of Alexandri HaKohain<\/em> of Frankfurt. His views on religious questions were widely sought, while Solomon Luria<\/a> was one of his correspondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among his publications were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n