NN Vermitzia Yerushalmi

No new sources, but on the basis of the source image uploaded to media of Rabbi Menachem Mann, A.B.D. & Rosh Yeshiva in Prague there is at least an iota of evidence connecting the Yerushalmi branch to Yehuda HaZaken of Prague and Vermitzia, subject to continuing verification. (07 OCT 2024)

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~prohel/genealogy/names/loew/spira/s...

• We can use your help adding a Source or Note in About for - Rabbi Salomon Salman Spira - if you have one.
• Origin of the name is from the city of Speyer in the Rheinland (Speyer was known by the name "Spira" as early as the fifth century. Family of scholars and rabbis of Speyer, Rhenish Bavaria, with numerous branches in other parts of Germany, and in Prague Bohemia, Galicia, and Poznan Poland. It originally bore the name "Ashkenazi," to distinguish it from the Kahane or Katz-Spira family. Many prominent families of Bohemia added to their names that of "Spiro" or "Spira" ie; Frankl-Spiro, Fränkel-Spira, Wiener-Spiro, Kohen-Spira and Porges-Spiro. sources: Oberländer relative, Lawrence Weinberg, Levie-kanes.com, J. K. Loren Rootsweb, Loeb site, Porges site, JewishEncyclopedia, Judaica Bohemiae.

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