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76. Chiya al-Daudi; b. ca 1080-1090; d. 1154 (cem: Leon, Spain); resident of Portugal; advisor to the King, military leader, scholar. First to be known as Charlap (Chiya, Rishon Legolei Portugal).

77. Yaish Ibn Yahya; b. ca 1110-1120; d. either 1151 or 1196; scholar, politician, military leader.

78. Yahya Ibn Yaish (Yahya el Negro); b. ca 1150; d. 1222; resident of Portugal; scholar, politician, royal advisor, vast land holdings.

79 Yehuda Ibn Yahya; known as Sar (Prince); resident of Portugal; father of Yahya and Yosef. Little is known of Yahya.

80. Yosef Ibn Yahya ha-Zaken; b. 1210; d. ca 1260; resident of Lisbon, Portugal; Talmudic scholar, attained great wealth, built magnificent Lisbon synagogue.

81. Shiomo Ibn Yahya ha-Zaken; d. <1300; resident of Lisbon, Portugal; philosopher, religious scholar, royal military advisor.

82A. Yosef Ibn Yahya ha-Meshorer; son of Shiomo ha-Zaken; fl. ca 1335; one of Yosef's ancestors was Aharon Ibn Yahya of Calatayud; father of Shiomo Ibn Yahya, fl. ca 1375.

82B. Gedaliah Ibn Yahya; son of Shiomo ha-Zaken; physician. Invited by King Henry of Castile to administer Jewish communities of his realm; final residence was Toledo, Spain; father of David and another son.

83. David Ibn Yahya Negro; d. Oct. 1385, Toledo, Spain; resident of Castile; lost many Ibn Yahya estates in Portugal, appointed Almoxarife and Chief Rabbi of Castile, known as Rav shel Sepharad; father of four sons.

84A. Gedaliah ben David Ibn Yahya; b. Toledo, Spain; father of Yitzhak, Yehuda, and Shiomo.

Nothing else known of this line.

84B. Yitzhak ben David Ibn Yahya; b. Toledo, Spain.

84C. Yehuda ben David Ibn Yahya Negro ha-Meshorer; b. 1365, Toledo, Spain; d. 1420,Portugal; most honoured Jewish poet of Portugal, rabbi. One son of Yehuda is known, David. However, we also know that his descendants became prominent rabbis and communal leaders in Italy.

84D. Shlomo ben David Ibn Yahya; b. Toledo, Spain; d. 1430; resident of Portugal; father of three sons.

85A. Yosef ben Shlomo Ibn Yahya; b. Portugal; resident of Castile; poet, religious scholar, rebuilder of Ibn Yahya Synagogue of Calatayud.

85B. Gedaliah ben Shiomo Ibn Yahya; b. 1400, Lisbon, Portugal; d. 1440; philosopher and astrologer to royal court of Portugal. When repression of Jews set in, he found refuge in Castile.

85C. David ben Shiomo Ibn Yahya; b. Portugal; d. ca 1450; father of four sons. The known family line continues through David.

86A. Yehuda ben David Ibn Yahya; b. Portugal; aliyah to Eretz Yisrael; resident of Safed; Kabbalist Yehuda was the father of David, a Kabbalist who died in Safed. David had four sons born in Safed who continued the deeply religious mystical traditions of their father: Gedaliah, Baruch, Shmuel, and Yehuda.

86B. Gedaliah ben David Ibn Yahya; b. 1437, Lisbon, Portugal; d. 1487, Constantinople; physician, along with Don Isaac Abravanel, to King Alfonso; eventually became resident of Constantinople; philosopher, writer, attempted to heal schism between Karaites and Rabbinic Judaism. Gedaliah was the father of Avigail who married her cousin, Yosef Ibn Yahya.

86C. Shiomo ben David Ibn Yahya; b. Portugal; d. 1490; scholar, advisor to King Alfonso V. Shiomo fathered at least three sons: 1) Gedaliah, father of Shiomo 2) David 3) name unknown. David is the only son for whom we have substantial information. His lineage follows.

86CA. David ben Shiomo Ibn Yahya; b. ca 1440-1455, Portugal; d. ca 1528, near Constantinople; Chief Rabbi of Lisbon, then fled persecution and traveled throughout Mediterranean region. While in Corfu, he was host to Don Isaac Abravanel, who considered him a distant cousin. Prolific writer, renowned scholar with reputation as one of the most distinguished rabbis to originate in Portugal. Father of Yaacov Tam.

86CAA. Yaacov Tam Ibn Yahya; b. 1475, Portugal; d. 1542; noted Talmudist and writer, Rabbi of Salonika, court physician in Constantinople. Father of three sons: Gedaliah, Avraham, and Yosef.

86CAAA. Gedaliah ben Yaacov Tam Ibn Yahya; d 1575, Constantinople; physician, scholar, writer on Hebrew literature, and teacher, rabbi in Salonika and Adrianople. Father of two sons. Saadiah Longo composed an elegy in his memory.

86CAAAA. Yaacov Tam ben Gedaliah Ibn Yahya; d. 1596; resident of Salonika; rabbi, scholar, writer on Hebrew literature, patron of poets Saadiah Longo, Abraham Reuben, and others.

86CAAAB. Moshe ben Gedaliah Ibn Yahya; d. ca 1595. 86CAAB. Avraham ben Yaacov Tam Ibn Yahya. Father of two sons, names unknown.

86CAAC. Yosef ha-Rofe ben Yaacov Tam Ibn Yahya; d. 1573 in battle; court physician to Suleiman the Magnificent, writer and scholar, publisher of many Ibn Yahya authors. Father of two sons.

86CAACA. Yaacov Tam ben Yosef Ibn Yahya; fl. ca 1595.

86CAACB. Moshe ben Yosef Ibn Yahya; fl. ca 1595; resident of Constantinople; physician, revered by entire populace of Anatolia for his treatment of plague victims. Moshe's son Gedaliah (fl. ca 1620) was a resident of Salonika and patron of Hebrew writers and poets.

86D. Yosef ben David Ibn Yahya the Martyr; b. 1425, Portugal; d 1498, Ferrara, Italy; confidant of Don Isaac Abravanel and advisor to King Alfonso V, but fled to Italy when King Joao tried forcible conversion; scholar, teacher, and communal leader. Father of three sons: Meir, Shlomo, and David, It is through David that the family line continues. Meir was resident of Oulina, Italy where he pursued a literary life as writer and poet, d. 1530. Shlomo b. 1470, d. 1533, fled persecution in Italy and settled on the island of Rhodes. He was the father of Yosef (fl. ca 1550) and grandfather of Shlomo and David.

87. David ben Yosef the Martyr Ibn Yahya; b. 1465, Lisbon, Portugal; d. 1542, Imola (cem. Safed, Israel), Italy; m. to Dinah __; fled to Italy where he was leader of the Jewish community in various cities such as Florence, Naples, Padua, & Imola; rabbi, scholar, writer. Father of Gedaliah and Yosef. Gedaliah may have been father of Shlomo Ibn Yahya of Ancona.

88. Yosef ben David Ibn Yahya; b. 1494, Florence, Italy; resident of Italy; rabbi, scholar, writer. Father of four sons: David, Ahikam, Yehuda, and Gedaliah.

89A. David ben Yosef Ibn Yahya; d. 1565; m. to Gamila bat Moshe Hamon; resident of Naples, Italy, President of Jewish Community of Naples father of three children: Ahala, Ahikam (fl. 1610), and Esther. Ahala, probably a daughter, had two sons, Baruch and Meir. Meir's line continues through his son Shalom, then three more generations; Rafael, Shalom, Rafael. Esther bat David Ibn Yahya was married to Don Yehuda Hiyya ben Yitzhak ben Shmuel Abravanel and lived in Salonika.

89B. Gedaliah ben Yosef Ibn Yahya; b. 1515; d. 1587, Alexandria, Egypt; m. twice; resident of Italy, Salonika, and Alexandria; scholar (secular & religious), historian, writer, author of Shaishelet ha-Kabbalah. Father of seven children: a son by his first wife, and by his second wife, Yosef (d. ca 1610), Yehuda (b. ca 1540), Moshe (d. ca 1615), Shlomo (d. ca 1620), David (d. ca 1625), and Ghana (d. ca 1625). Gedaliah had many grandchildren whose names are not known. Several of his descendants lived in Italy and there is a Yahya presence in that country to this day. The children of his son Yehuda are known.

89C. Yehuda ha-Rofe ben Yosef Ibn Yahya; b. 1529, Imola, Italy; d. 1560, Bologna, Italy, physician, rabbi.

90. Yehuda ben Gedaliah Ibn Yahya; b. ca 1540, Italy; rabbi in Ottoman Empire. Yehuda had four known children: Moshe Gedaliah (d, ca 1650), Noah (d. ca 1650), David (b. ca 1570), Hananeel (d. ca 1650).

91. David ben Yehuda Ibn Yahya; b. ca 1570; rabbi in Salonika and Constantinople.

92. Eliezer ben David Ibn Yahya (Charlap); b. ca 1590. Salonika; d. Tykocin, Poland; rabbi in Salonika and Constantinople, invited to be rabbi in Tykocin whereupon he assumed the name Charlap in honor of his ancestor Chiya al-Daudi.

93. Shimon Shaltiel Charlap; b. ca 1610.

94. David Charlap; b. ca 1628.

95. Shalom Charlap; b. ca 1636.

96. Ze'ev Charlap; b. ca 1657.

97. Abraham Charlap; b. ca 1675.

98. Shimon Charlap; b. ca 1696.

99. Kalman Charlap; b. Poland; resident of Lomza Guberniya, Poland.

100. Zalman Charlap; b. Lomza Guberniya, Poland; progenitor of Lewin family.

101. Avraham Charlap; b. Lomza Guberniya, Poland; resident of Ciechanowiec, Poland; precursor of Lewin family.

LEW

102. Betzalel Lew; b. ca 1780, Ciechanowiec, Poland; resident of Ciechanowiec.

103. Yankel (Ya'acov) Lew; b. 1805, Ciechanowiec, Poland; m. 1825 to Mindel Lew in Ciechanowiec; resident of Ciechanowiec.

104. Ezriel Aharon Lewin, b. January 23, 1839, Ciechanowiec, Poland; m. to Rachel Toba Lewin; resident of Ciechanowiec.

LEW-CIECHANOWIECKI

105. Kalman Lewin; b. Ciechanowiec, Poland; Holocaust victim; m. to Chaya Faiga Lew; resident of Ciechanowiec; butcher.

LEVINE

106. Joseph Levine, b. March 23, 1890, Ciechanowiec, Poland; d. 1971, Kansas City MO; m. 1stly to Esther Lewin in Ciechanowiec; 2ndly to Blanche Jaben, arrived USA 1912, resident Kansas City MO; scrap yard, auto parts, owned butcher.

107. Louis Levine, b. April 15, 1912, Ciechanowiec, Poland; d. September 11, 1974, Kansas City MO; m. to Pauline Odesnick; arrived USA ca. 1922, resident of Kansas City.

108A. HARVEY LEVINE, HEIR PRESUMPTIVE; m. to Annie; resident of Santa Ana, CA, USA, actor.

109A. Mark Levine (son of 107A)

109B. Sarah Levine (daughter of 107A)

108B. Cheryl Levine (sister of 107A)

108C. Sanford Levine (brother of 107A)

108CA. Jennifer Levine (daughter of 107C)

108CB. Aaron Levine (son of 107C)

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