# Famille Jaffe

La famille Jaffe (ou Joffe) est une famille de rabbins, etc. représentée en Allemagne, Autriche, Russie, Grande-Bretagne, Italie et aux États-Unis. Leur origine remonte à Mordecai Jaffe (1530-1612), auteur de « Lebushim », et à son oncle Moses Jaffe, tous deux descendants d'une vieille famille de Prague.
Texte anglais à traduire : According to Joseph Lewinstein, rabbi at Serock, government of Warsaw, the progenitor of the Jaffes was Samuel ben Elhanan, a grandson of Isaac ha-Zaḳen (died at the end of the 12th century), whose father was Samuel, the son-in-law of Rabbi Meïr of Ramerupt, the father of Jacob Tam, grandson of Rashi. Lewinstein's conclusions, however, have not yet been substantiated.
From Abraham, the father of Mordecai ("Lebushim"), came the Jaffe branch proper, while another Mordecai, the son of Moses Jaffe, settled in Cracow, where he married the daughter of Joel Singer and assumed the name of his father-in-law, in accordance with the custom current among the Jews of Poland. His descendants, often called Ḳalmanḳes, were sometimes confounded with the descendants of the author of the "Lebushim," and it is difficult to ascertain to which of the two houses some of the later Jaffes belong. Again, many Jaffes have taken the names of Itzig, Meier, Margolies, Schlesinger, Rosenthal, Wallerstein, etc., while many distant relatives, really of other houses, have preferred to take the popular name of Jaffe. In the tables given below these questions have been elucidated in so far as documentary or authoritative private evidence has permitted. Isaac and Eliezer, two other brothers of Abraham ben Joseph (father of the author of the "Lebushim"), settled in Italy, and there became the progenitors of the Italian branch of the Jaffes. Three daughters of Mordecai Jaffe ("Lebushim") married the sons of three of the most prominent Jewish families of that time (see Table II.), and in this way the Jaffe family became related to the Wahls, Epsteins, and Günzburgs. The daughter of Moses Jaffe was the wife of Samuel Sirkes. Later the Jaffes united with the families of Katzenellenbogen, Schorr, Heilprin, Bacharach, Deiches, Rosenthal, Minz, etc.

## Quelques membres de la famille

Voici une énumération partielle de représentants des deux branches de cette famille; ceux qui descendent de Moses Jaffe sont indiqués par un K (= ḳalmanḳes) :
* Al Jaffee, cartooniste ;
* David Jaffe ;
* Edgar Jaffé (1866–1921), homme politique allemand ;
* Eliezer David Jaffe ;
* Harold Jaffe, auteur américain ;
* Jérome H. Jaffe, psychiatre ;
* Nicole Jaffe ;
* Norman Jaffe ;
* Rami Jaffe ;
* Robert Jaffé (1894–1968), homme politique allemand ;
* Rona Jaffe (1932–2005), auteur américain ;
* Sam Jaffe (page d'homonymie) :
** Sam Jaffe (acteur) (1891–1984), acteur américain ;
** Sam Jaffe (producteur) ;
* Sophia Jaffé (née en 1980), violoniste allemande
* Jaffe v. Redmond
* Aaron Jaffe (K) ;
* Aaron Jaffe (K) d'Uman ;
* Abraham Abba ben Israel Jaffe ;
* Anselm Benjamin Jaffe ;
* Daniel Jaffe ;
* David Jaffe ;
* Eleazar Jaffe ;
* Eliezer Jaffe ;
* Eliezer (Lazar) Jaffe ;
* Enoch Zundel Jaffe (alias Zundel Ḥalfon) ;
* Frank Jaffe ;
* Isaac né Joseph Jaffe-Ashkenazi ;
* Israel ben Aaron Jaffe (Saba) ;
* Israel né Aaron Jaffe (Zuṭa : K) ;
* Israel David né Mordecai Margolies-Schlesinger-Jaffe (alias David Sered) ;
* Israel b. Zalkind b. Isaac Jaffe ;
* Israel b. Ẓebi Hirsch Jaffe (alias Israel Weksler) ;
* Jedidiah b. Abraham Abe Jaffe ;
* Joel ben Samuel Jaffe ;
* Joseph b. Moses Jaffe ;
* Judah Löb b. Shabbethai Jaffe ;
* Kalonymus ben Mordecai Jaffe ;
* Kalonymus b. Moses Jaffe ;
* Max Jaffé ;
* Mordecai Hirsch ;
* Mordecai Jaffe ;
* Mordecai (Marcus) Jaffe de Berlin ;
* Mordecai Jaffe de Brody ;
* Mordecai Jaffe-Margolies-Schlesinger de Vienne ;
* Mordecai Gimpel Jaffe ;
* Moses Jaffe de Berlin ;
* Moses Jaffe de Pinsk ;
* Moses b. Eliezer Jaffe ;
* Moses ben Issachar ;
* Moses b. Mordecai (né Joseph) ;
* Sir Otto Jaffé ;
* Philipp Jaffé ;
* Samuel b. Isaac Jaffe ;
* Shabbethai b. Abraham Jaffe ;
* Solomon (Zalman) b. Jacob ;
* Theodor Julius Jaffé ;
* Tobiah b. Mordecai (né Joseph de Plungian) ;
* Ẓebi Hirsch Jaffe ;
* Ẓebi Hirsch Saba (K) ;
* Ẓemaḥ b. Jacob of Wilna ;
* Ẓemaḥ Schön.