Johanan Luria

Aaron Luria (father)
Miriam Spira (mother)

Johanan ben Aaron ben Nathanael Luria (Hebrew: יוחנן בן אהרן בן נתנאל לוריא) was an Alsatian Talmudist. He lived successively at Niedernheim and Strasburg at the end of the fifteenth century and in the beginning of the sixteenth. After having studied for many years in German yeshivot, he returned to Alsace and settled in Strasburg, where he founded a yeshiva by permission of the government. Luria was the author of an ethical work entitled "Hadrakah" (Kraków, c. 1579) and of "Meshibat Nefesh" (Neubauer, "Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. in the Bodleian Library" No. 257), an aggadic and mystical commentary on the Pentateuch, founded on Rashi. To this commentary was appended a dissertation in which Luria refuted the arguments advanced by Christians against Judaism.^[1]

His father Aaron ben Nathanael Luria is often cited as the first Luria and the progenitor of this family.^[2]^[3] One of his descendants was Elijah Loans.^[4]

Johanan had two brothers, Yechiel Yehuda and Judah "the physician". Yechiel Yehuda had four children, including Dreizel Miriam Zeisel Luria (Rema's grandmother) and Julia-Malka Luria (Meir Katzenellenbogen's mother).

Ancestry

Ancestors of Johanan Luria

Shimshon

Yechiel Yehuda

Miriam bat Shlomo Spira

Nethanel

Matityahu III Ashkenazi Treves

Daughter of Matityahu

Marianne Treves Spira

Aharon Luria

Johanan Luria

Samuel Zalman Spira

Sholmo Salman Spira

Matityahu III Ashkenazi Treves

Julia Minna Vergentlin Treves

Marianne Treves Spira

Miriam Spira

Matityahu III Ashkenazi Treves

Yosef V Tzarfati-Treves

Vergentlin Hanna Treves

Marianne Treves Spira

References

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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Johanan ben Aaron ben Nathanael Luria". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Retrieved Jan 18, 2015.
Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography:
- Carmoly, Itinéraires de la Terre Sainte, p. 345;
- Zunz, Z. G. pp. 106–130; [1]
- Orient, Lit. xi. 546;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1398.
^ Dr. Paul Jacobi, "The Historicity of the RaSHI Descent", Avotaynu - vol VI No. 1 p23
^ "חבל הכסף - ישראל זאב גוטמאן (page 106 of 320)". www.hebrewbooks.org. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
^ Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "LOANS, ELIJAH BEN MOSES ASHKENAZI or LOANZ". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Retrieved January 21, 2015.