Yitzhak Babad, A.B.D. Brody "Krakover"

• Family Tree Isaac A.B.D. Brody, Brzezany ("Saul Wahl" by Dr. Neil Rosenstein, page 273)

Many of his descendants adopted the name of "Babad, (B.A.B.A.D. - sons of the Av Beth Din).

אבי שושלת באב"ד

GEDCOM Note

From the Encyclopedia Judaica (2007):

BABAD, a family of rabbis. The founder of the family was Isaac of Cracow, son of Issachar Berish, a parnas of the Council of Four Lands, and grandson of Heschel, av bet din of Cracow. He served as rabbi of Brzezany and then of Brody, where he died in 1704. His children added the word Babad (an acronym of Benei Av Bet Din, children of the av bet din´´) to their signatures, and it eventually became their surname.

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"BABAD" = sons of the Av Beth Din.

His children are referred to in state records by the name of RABINOWITZ. [Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe]