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An antique postcard of Emperor Napoleon visiting a Russian village, reminiscent of
his meeting with Joseph (Jonas, Yonah or Yoneh) Lurie in Mogilev in 1812.

Hezekiah — and ultimately to King
David of the 10th century B.C.E.
The book significantly extends on
Rosenstein's monumental 1990 work,-
The Unbroken Chain, which focused on
the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi
rabbinic dynasties from medieval times
to the present. Rosenstein joked that
Legacy is a "prequel" to the earlier book
— `you know, just like in the Star Wars
series."
The earlier work documented the
descendants of the legendary 16th-cen-
tury Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen of
Padua, who gave rise to the Ger, Bobov
and other major Chasidic dynasties of
18th-century Europe.
The new book enlarges the genealogi-
cal pyramid, connecting it to Rabbi
Jehiel Lurie, head of the 13th-century
rabbinical court in Brest-Litovsk, then
back to Rashi and beyond.
In a foreword, former Israeli Chief
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau unequivocally
endorsed the validity of the historical
links. 'After examining the subject, I
came to the conclusion that indeed it is
correct to connect the Lurie family back
to the Rashi — and from there to Rabbi
Yochanan HaSandlar, King Yehizkiyahu
and, obviously, to King David," he
wrote.
The Guinness Book of Records has also
accepted the Luries as the oldest-known
living family in the world today, citing
them in the "longest lineage" category in
its 1999 edition.
The family tree boasts an astonishing
array of celebrated historical figures from
the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin,
from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx
and Moses Montefiore.
The list also includes Yehudi
Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the
Rothschilds and even Rosenstein him-
self If it begins to sound like a Who's
Who of the Ashkenazi world, it is.
Rabbi Beryl Wein, former head of the
Rockland, N.Y., Sha'arei Torah yeshivah,
once estimated that the Katzenellen-
bogen tree links more than half of the
Ashkenazi Jews in the world. If so,
Rosenstein conjectures, the Lurie
dynasty "would possibly connect most, if
not all," Ashkenazi Jews.
Regarded as the most prominent and
ancient of all Ashkenazi families, the
Lurie clan apparently originated in 13th-

century France. Although one obscure
tradition suggests the name arose from
the Hebrew phrase k-or Yah — "by
God's light" — Rosenstein considers it
more likely that the name derived from
the name of the town of Loire on the
Rhone River.
Illustrious persOnages bearing variants
of the name — such as Lourie, Luria,
Loria, Lorie and Lurya — include the
Nobel Prize-winning Italian physician
Salvador Luria (1912-1991) and inter-
nationally renowned political cartoonist
Ranan Lurie, who penned the book's
preface.
However, Rosenstein cautions that
numerous prominent Luries, including
the famous 16th-century kabbalist
Rabbi Isaac Lurie of Tzfat, known as the
Ari, cannot yet be connected to the clan
with historical accuracy.
Another important relation is Rebecca
Lipa Anikster, whose unique 19th-cen-
tury Yiddish-Hebrew autobiography,
Zecher Olam, is painstakingly repro-
duced in the book and translated in full.
But Rosenstein is still awaiting the emer-
gence of new evidence that will pinpoint
Anikster's place in the family tree with
precision.
"Sometimes, there will be things that
will not have an answer," he said.
"In such cases, we can only say, Taku,'
just as we do sometimes when reading
the Talmud. Taku.' means we have to
wait for Eliyahu the Prophet to come
along to tell us what is the right answer."
The book recounts many historical
anecdotes, including the unverified tale
of the Jewish pope — a cousin of Rashi's
named Elchanan who, according to leg-
end, converted and became the Roman
Catholic Pope Andreas.
A more central anecdote involves a
19th-century figure, Yoneh Lurie of
Moghilev.
One afternoon in 1812, Lurie's
Minchah prayer was interrupted by
Napoleon, whose army had just been
defeated and who was in need of assis-
tance.
Yoneh responded nobly to the emper-
or's request for help and received
Napoleon's gold-embroidered greatcoat
as a token of appreciation. The jacket
was later fashioned into a parochet, a cur-
tain for the Holy Ark, and now belongs
to the Haifa Museum. 0

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