Let op: Was jonger dan 16 jaar (4) toen kind (Ezeklel Landau) werd geboren (??-??-1713).
Kind(eren):
LANDAU: Family name derived from a city
in western Germany;found largely among Polish
Jews, who probably were expelled from that city
about the middle of the sixteenth century (see
Luwenstein, Business. der Juden in der Kurpfalz,
p. 33, Frankfurt-on-the-Main, 1895) and retained the
name in their new homes.
The earliest bearer of it of
whom there is record is Jacob Baruch ben Judah
Landau, author of the ritual work Agur, who
Lived [died] in Italy about 1480 or 1490. From the latter
part of the sixteenth century the Landau family is
met with in Poland, especially in the western part of.
The first member of this branch definitely mentioned
is Judah Landau, who lived about the
beginning of the seventeenth century. He and his
son Ezekiel Landau, are known only by name.
The latters son, Zebi Hirsch Landau, was a delegate
to the Council of Four Lauds, and was also
one of the signatories to the privilege granted by
that body to the printer of Zolkiev in 1699 (Buber,
Kiryah Nisgabah, p. 104, Cracow, 1903). One of
his sons, Judah Landau, who lived in Opatow,
was father of the most famous scion of the family,
Ezekiel Landau. Branches of the family live in Russian Poland
and in Brody. Descendants of the same family are;
Israel Jonah Landau (d. 1824), Rabbi of Kepno, Wlkp., Poland ,
province of Poznan, Wlkp., Poland , and author of Me on ha-Bera-
kot (Dyhernfurth, 1816), novelise to the Talmudic
treatise Berakot; and his son, Samuel Joseph
Landau (d. 1837), also Rabbi in Kepno, Wlkp., Poland , and author
of Mishkan Shiloh
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