Jewish Dynasties

This is a page for Venerable Torah Sages, prominent Hasidic dynasties and illustrious Jewish Rabbinic lineages.

We're just starting out, feel free to help and insert additional leading profiles.

Bible Figures

These are listed ONLY for reference! Please do NOT merge with these profiles. Instead try and find the most recent famous person in your tree, such as the names above, and merge with those. Merging directly with a Bible Figure, creates needless work for yourself and whoever has to then merge the 90 intervening generations from them. These older lines are almost certainly ALREADY in the tree!

As I happened to start the biblical merge with some tree entered by non-Jews, most of the profiles are managed by them. Please contact Shmuel Aharon Kam regarding any questions about these lines.

• Adam: Main Copy (KKK), ; thirty others not listed.
• Noah: Main Copy (SK)
• Abraham: Main Copy (JDT)
• King David: Main Copy (MM)

Much more information on the Biblical Tree Merge page.

Baal Shem Tov (BeSH"T) (1698 - 1760) and Hasidic Dynasties

• Isroel ben Eliezer "Baal Shem Tov" (1698 - 1760): Main Copy (EK)
• Israel Isserles "Baal Shem Tov" (1698 - 1760): (CRJS) (CH)

There are many duplicates of this profile on Geni, as many families trace their lineage to the Baal Shem Tov.

For reference:

• List of Hasidic Dynasties: Link to Wikipedia

Twerski/Twersky family

These are just a few "starting points", to which many people are able to trace their families. There are many others in this tree.

• Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky of Chernobyl (1730-1797): Main Copy (EK)
  • Rabbi Mordechai Twersky, the Maggid of Chernobyl (1770-1837): Main Copy (EK)
    • Rabbi Aaron Twersky of Chernobyl (1784-1871): Main Copy (LT)
      • Rabbi Yeshayo Meshulom Zishe Twersky of Chernobyl (1814-1881): Main Copy (LT)
        • Rabbi Shlomo Bentzion Twersky of Chernobyl (1870-1939): not in the tree?
      • Rabbi Boruch Osher Twersky of Chernobyl (d. 1905): Main Copy (LT)
      • Rabbi Menachem Nochum Twersky of Loiev: Main Copy (LT)
    • Rabbi Yitzhak Twersky of Skver: Main Copy (EK)
      • Rabbi Avrohom Yehoshua Heshel Twersky of Skver: Main Copy (EK)
      • Rabbi Dovid Twersky of Skver (1848-1919): Main Copy (EK)
    • Rabbi Avrohom Twersky of Trisk: Main Copy (LT)
    • Rabbi Dovid Twersky of Tulna: Main Copy (LT)
    • Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel Twersky of Tsherkas: Main Copy (LT)
    • Rabbi Yochanan Twersky of Rachmastrivka: Main Copy (LT)

Rokeach family

• Rabbi Sholom Rokeach of Belz ("Sar Sholom" 1779 - 1855 ) Main Copy
• Ha'Gaon Elazer Lev/Low Shemen Rokeach ( 1758 - 1837 ) Main Copy

Horowitz family

• Israel HaLevi Horowitz (1507 - 1572): Main Copy, BB.

Much more data listed on Horowitz Merge page.

Maharal (R' Yehuda Loew) and Rema (R' Moshe Isserles)

There are many, many problems with these lines. I am not even sure how one begins to sort them out. I've tried to make some headway along with several other users, but a lot remains to be done. The problem is further complicated because merge issues that far back don't show up in "Merge Issues" list on my home page. If anyone wants to collaborate on this, I would like to participate (ygb).

• Maharal of Prague – Yehuda Loew c.1520 - 1609 Main Copy (YGB)

• Moshe Isserles ("ReMA" 1520 - 1572 ) Main Copy (BB)

RASHI (1040 - 1105)

Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhaqi Tzarfati of Troyes ("RASHI") Main Copy (CRJS)

The Vilna Gaon

Eliyahu Kremer ( "Vilna Gaon" 1720 - 1797 ) Main Copy (OB)

The Berditcherver Rebbe

Levi Isaac (Yitsḥak) ben Meir of Berdichev ("The Berditchever Rebbe" 1740 - 1810 ) Main Copy (BL)

The Sanzer Rebbe Chaim Halberstam

Admor Chaim Halberstam, Sanzer Rebbe ("The Diverei Chaim" 1793 - 1876 ) Main Copy (YGB)

The Breslover Rebbe

Nachman Horodenker ("Nachman Mi'Breslov" 1772 - 1810 ) Main Copy (CRJS)

The Lubavitcher Rebbe

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi The Alter Rebbe Boruchovich ("Chabad Founder" 1745-1812 ) Main Copy (YGB)

• Menachem Mendel Schneerson ("7th ADMOR of CHABAD The Lubavitcher Rebbe" 1902-1994 ) Main Copy (YGB)

The Chasam Sofer

Rabbi Moshe Sofer Schreiber ("The Chasam Sofer" 1762 - 1839 ) Main Copy (MIN)

The Gerer Rebbe

Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Rottenberg Alter ( The Gerrer Rebbe - "The Chiddushei HaRim" 1798 - 1866 ) Main Copy (CRJS)

Rav Kook

Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook ("Rav Kook" 1865 - 1935 ) Main Copy (OB)

The Skolye Rebbe

David Isaac Rabinowitz ("The Skolyer Rebbe" 1898 - 1979 ) Main Copy (MM)

The Vizhnitzer Rebbe

Menachem Mendel Hager ( The 1st Vizhnitzer Rebbe - "Tzemach Tzedek" 1830 - 1884 ) Main Copy (AZG) (YGB)

The Bostoner Rebbe

Pinchas Dovid Horowitz ( Grand Bostoner Rebbe 1876 - 1941 ) Main Copy (MM)

• Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz (Bostoner-Jerusalem) (1921 - 2009) Main Copy (MM)

Rabbi Akiva Eger

Akiva Eger ( Rabbi Akiva Guens-Eiger 1761 - 1837 ) Main Copy (MIN)

The Belzer Rebbe

Rabbi Shalom Rokeach ("Sar Shalom" 1779 - 1855 ) Main Copy (MYR) (MM)

Teitelbaum Satmar & Sighet Dynasty

Gaon Moshe Teitelbaum of Ujheli ( The Yismach Moshe - Satmar & Sighet founder 1759 - 1841 ) Main Copy (SCS)

• Joel Teitelbaum ( The Satmarer Rebbe 1887 - 1979 ) Main Copy (SCS)

• Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum ( Satamar Rov 1914 - 2006 Sighet הרבי מסאטמאר ) Main Copy (SCS) (YGB )

The Bobover Dynasty

Grand Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam ( The 1st Bobover Rebbe 1847 - 1905 ) Main Copy (YGB)

The Maggid of Mezeritch

Dov Ber Friedman ( The Maggid of Mezeritch 1703 - 1773 ) Main Copy (MIN) (MM)

Shmuel Frankel Kamader of Dorog

Shmuel Frankel Kamader of Dorog ("The Imrei Shefer" 1815 - 1882 ) Main Copy (DEL)

The Katzenellenbogen Dynasty

MaHaRaM of Padua Meir Katzenellenbogen 1482 - 1565 Main Copy (BB) (MM)

• Saul Wahl Katzenellenbogen ("Saul Wahl Jewish King for a Night" 1541 - 1617 ) Main Copy (BB)

The Luria Lineage ( c. 1300 - )

Samson Luria ( Physician, ABD Dachticha c. 1325 - 1417 ) Main Copy (BB) (MM)

• Jehiel Luria ( Jehiel Luria/Lurie A.B.D. Brest-Litovsk 1430 - 1470 ) Main Copy (BB) (MM)

• Solomon Luria of Lublin ( MaHaRaSHaL Leading rabbinical authority of his generation 1510 - 1573 ) Main Copy (MM)

The Rizhin Dynasty

Rabbi Yisroel Friedman ("Israel der Heyliger" 1796 - 1850 ) Main Copy (MIN)

The Alexander Dynasty

Grand Rabbi Yechiel Dancyger ( 1st Aleksanderer Rebbe 1828 - 1894 ) Main Copy (YGB)

The Chofetz Chaim

Yisroel Meir Kagan ( The Chofetz Chaim - Kagan/Poupko 1839 - 1933 ) Main Copy (RJSA)

Munkacser Rebbe

R' Shlomo Spira / Shapiro ( Shem Shlomo of Munkacz ) Main Copy (DO)

The Tosh Dynasty

R' Meshulam Feish Lowy ( The Tasher Rebbe ) Main Copy (YL)

MaHaRam Schick

R' Moshe Schick ( MaHaRam Schick 1807 - 1879 ) Main Copy (MM)

The Kotzker Rebbe

Menachem Mendel Morgensztern/Shtern/Morgenshtern ( The Kotzker Rebbe, Menachem Mendel of Kotsk 1787 - 1859 ) Main Copy (CRJS)

The Apter Rebbe

Avrohom Yehoshua Heschel of Apt ( Apter Rebbe, "Ohev Israel" 1749 - 1825 ) Main Copy (CRHS) (MM)

The Halberstam Dynasty

(Please add the other prominent family members)

Chaim Halberstam, Sanzer Rebbe ("The Diverei Chaim" 1793 - 1876 ) Main Copy (YGB)

The Dayan Dynasty

R. Eliyahu Dayan (80 male generations to King David) Main Copy (MM)

• Moshe Dayan ( 1915 - 1981 ) Main Copy (JW)

Rav Tsvi Pesah Frank

Rav Tsvi Pesah Frank ( Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for several decades c.1873 - 1960 ) Main Copy (MIN)

Israel Meir Lau

Israel Meir Lau (LOW) ( Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel 1993–2003 - b. 1937 ) Main Copy (RS)

Rav Moshe Feinstein

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895 - 1986) Main Copy (NR)

Soloveitchik Dynasty

Rabbi Simcha Hacohen Rapoport C.1700 Main Copy (EGL)

• Gaon Rabbi Arye Leib Of Vitebsk (c.1700 - c.1771) Main Copy (EGL)

• Chaim of Volozhin ( ר' חיים מוולוזין ( 1749 - 1821 Main Copy (AB) (EB)

• Joseph Dov HaLevy Soloveitchik (1820 - 1892) Main Copy (AB)(SH)

• Chaim Soloveitchik (1853 - 1918) Main Copy(SH)(EGL)

Elchanan Bonim Wasserman

Elchanan Bonim Wasserman (1875 - 1941) Main Copy (ML)

The Kaliver Dynasty

Admor Isaac Taub of Kaliv (1751-1821) Main Copy (MM)

The Sasregen Dynasty

R' Mordechai Rubin ( Sasregener Rebbe ) Main Copy (YGB)

Rabbi Israel Salanter

R' Yisrael Salanter (1810 - 1883)- Founder of Musser Movement Main Copy (RS)

The Maggid of Lutzk

R' Shlomo Flam (The Maggid of Lutzk) Main Copy (MMF)

The Chozeh of Lublin

R'Yaakov Yitzhak Horowitz Ha Levi (1745 - 1815) Main Copy (CRJS)

Reb Zusya of Anlpoli

R'Meshulamen Zusia of AnIpoli (1718-1800) Main Copy (MM)

Noam Elimelech of Lizhensk

R'Elimelech Lipman of Lizhensk (Weissbloom) (1717 - 1787) Main Copy (MZR)

The Lelover Rabbinical Dynasty

R' Dovid Lelover, The Yismach Moshe 1st Lelover Rebbe (1746 - 1814) Main copy (EGL)

• R' Moshe Biderman, Lelover Rebbe-Yerusholaim (1776 - 1851) Main Copy (EGL

The Biala Rabbincal Dynasty

Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowitz - Yid HaKadosh / The Holy Jew Of Peshischa (1766 - 1813) Main Copy (EGL)

The Ma'or Vashemesh

R'Kalonymos Kalmen Epstein (1754 - 1825) Main Copy (EL)

Simcha Bunim of Przysucha

R' Simcha Bunim Bonhart of Pryzsucha (1765 - 1827) Main Copy (SF)

Apt-Mezhbizh-Zinkover Hasidic dynasty

R' Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apt - Ohev Israel(1748 - 1825)Main Copy (NR)

• Yitzchak Meir of Zinkov Heschel (1770 - 1855)Main Copy (YLG)

• R'Yoseph Moshe of Mezhbizh Heschel Main Copy (SJ)

Tzvi Elimelech of Dinov

R' Tzvi Elimelech of Dinov Sapiro - Bnei Yissuchor (1783 - 1841) Main Copy