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76. Chiya al-Daudi (he was the son of one of the the two sons of Hezekiah, or Chizkiya of Baghdad - Exilarch; they fled to Spain and gave rise to the Ibn Yahya family); 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 (he is mentioned by the acclaimed Portuguese historian Fernão Lopes)
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.
http://www.crownofdavid.com/english/ibnyahya.htm
"The four centuries that our ancestors spent in Spain roughly coincide with what has been called the Golden Age. It was the age of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Yehuda Halevi, and Maimonides. That era came to an end in 1492 with the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. On the 500th anniversary of that event the Jewish Museum in New York City held a retrospective on Jewish life in Moslem and Christian Spain. The picture that emerges is nuanced, shaded. There is no longer a pure Golden Age, but a convivencia [coexistence] that is not total harmony. Medieval Spain was a pluralistic society in which the separate communities engaged in business with each other and influenced each other with their ideas and cultural forms. At the same time, these groups mistrusted each other and were often at war with one another. Culture flourished despite politics, but flourish it did and left such a rich legacy that for centuries after men and women thought it had been created in an age that was "Golden" in every sense of the term. The intermingling of the three civilizations provided the fertile substratum for the flowering of Jewish culture but the Jewish religious heritage was invigorated by the influx of emigres from Babylonia, who brought with them Talmudic learning, philosophic and scientific speculation, and a rich poetic tradition. Among these exiles from the East were the sons of Chiskiah, the martyred Rosh Hagolah. It was their descendants who gave rise to some of the great families of Iberia, including the Abravanels and Ibn Yahyas. Chiya al-Daudi was the distinguished progenitor of the Ibn Yahya family of Portugal and Spain. Born between 1080 and 1090 C.E., he became a prominent rabbi, composer, poet, and advisor to the King of Portugal. His hymns are still used in Sephardic congregations throughout the world".
http://www.davidicdynasty.org/chapter26.php
"The last, murdered, Rosh Hagolah (Exilarch) Chiskiah of Baghdad, whose children, in the generation of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, fled to safety in Spain. Rabbi Abraham ben David, the chronicler of the twelfth century, mentions the fact in his work Sefer Hakabbalah. As it seems, several other families later branched out from them, such as the Yahyas, the Abravanels".
http://www.davidicdynasty.org/chapter25.php
"The Davidic lines continued in Mesopotamia. The Talmud records that the Jewish community there was ruled in regard to its own affairs by an officer known as the Exilarch, reputedly descended from Jehoiachin, the last King of Judah exiled to Babylonia in 597 B.C.E. (II Kings 25:27-28) [...] The line of Exilarchs continued down to the last Davidic Prince definitely to hold this office. Mar Chizkiya was executed by the Persian Emperor in the middle of the eleventh century, leaving two sons, David (the ancestor of the Charlap family and probably the elder) and Isaac, the ancestor of the Shaltiel family. These escaped to Spain where they took refuge with a family friendly to their own. The two sons of Mar Chizkiah fled to Spain where they were taken under the protection of Yosef ha-Nagid ben Shmuel. Spain was then a country in which Jews held positions of authority, led armies to victory and excelled in academic learning. The two brothers lived in Granada with Yosef ha-Nagid until he was murdered in 1066. One (presumably Isaac) went to Zaragoza and married there, and his descendants became distinguished in the Aragonese community. The other brother (presumably David) went north and west, where his next known descendant is Chiya al-Daudi (ca. 1085-1154), the first to be known as Charlap, the name he also gave to his dynasty".
http://www.crownofdavid.com/english/hdavidtdy.htm
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 (he is mentioned by the acclaimed Portuguese historian Fernão Lopes)
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.
http://www.crownofdavid.com/english/ibnyahya.htm
"The four centuries that our ancestors spent in Spain roughly coincide with what has been called the Golden Age. It was the age of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Yehuda Halevi, and Maimonides. That era came to an end in 1492 with the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. On the 500th anniversary of that event the Jewish Museum in New York City held a retrospective on Jewish life in Moslem and Christian Spain. The picture that emerges is nuanced, shaded. There is no longer a pure Golden Age, but a convivencia [coexistence] that is not total harmony. Medieval Spain was a pluralistic society in which the separate communities engaged in business with each other and influenced each other with their ideas and cultural forms. At the same time, these groups mistrusted each other and were often at war with one another. Culture flourished despite politics, but flourish it did and left such a rich legacy that for centuries after men and women thought it had been created in an age that was "Golden" in every sense of the term. The intermingling of the three civilizations provided the fertile substratum for the flowering of Jewish culture but the Jewish religious heritage was invigorated by the influx of emigres from Babylonia, who brought with them Talmudic learning, philosophic and scientific speculation, and a rich poetic tradition. Among these exiles from the East were the sons of Chiskiah, the martyred Rosh Hagolah. It was their descendants who gave rise to some of the great families of Iberia, including the Abravanels and Ibn Yahyas. Chiya al-Daudi was the distinguished progenitor of the Ibn Yahya family of Portugal and Spain. Born between 1080 and 1090 C.E., he became a prominent rabbi, composer, poet, and advisor to the King of Portugal. His hymns are still used in Sephardic congregations throughout the world".
http://www.davidicdynasty.org/chapter26.php
"The last, murdered, Rosh Hagolah (Exilarch) Chiskiah of Baghdad, whose children, in the generation of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, fled to safety in Spain. Rabbi Abraham ben David, the chronicler of the twelfth century, mentions the fact in his work Sefer Hakabbalah. As it seems, several other families later branched out from them, such as the Yahyas, the Abravanels".
http://www.davidicdynasty.org/chapter25.php
"The Davidic lines continued in Mesopotamia. The Talmud records that the Jewish community there was ruled in regard to its own affairs by an officer known as the Exilarch, reputedly descended from Jehoiachin, the last King of Judah exiled to Babylonia in 597 B.C.E. (II Kings 25:27-28) [...] The line of Exilarchs continued down to the last Davidic Prince definitely to hold this office. Mar Chizkiya was executed by the Persian Emperor in the middle of the eleventh century, leaving two sons, David (the ancestor of the Charlap family and probably the elder) and Isaac, the ancestor of the Shaltiel family. These escaped to Spain where they took refuge with a family friendly to their own. The two sons of Mar Chizkiah fled to Spain where they were taken under the protection of Yosef ha-Nagid ben Shmuel. Spain was then a country in which Jews held positions of authority, led armies to victory and excelled in academic learning. The two brothers lived in Granada with Yosef ha-Nagid until he was murdered in 1066. One (presumably Isaac) went to Zaragoza and married there, and his descendants became distinguished in the Aragonese community. The other brother (presumably David) went north and west, where his next known descendant is Chiya al-Daudi (ca. 1085-1154), the first to be known as Charlap, the name he also gave to his dynasty".
http://www.crownofdavid.com/english/hdavidtdy.htm