Claire Sztern's Family Tree
Moshe Eliyahu Frances [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 17 Nov 1903 in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). He died in 1980. He married Buena Tova Frances on 10 Nov 1927 in Saloniki, Greece. Moshe was employed as owned a shop in Brussels, Belgium. He was employed as shamash in a synagogue in Brussels, Belgium. He immigrated in 1929 to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He immigrated in 1930 to Brussels, Belgium.
Buena Tova Frances [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 11/12 Jun 1902 in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). She died on 7 Aug 1986 in Belgium. She was buried in Belgium. She married Moshe Eliyahu Frances on 10 Nov 1927 in Saloniki, Greece. Buena was employed as seamstress before 1927 in Saloniki, Greece. She immigrated in 1929 to Amsterdam, Netherlands. She immigrated in 1930 to Brussels, Belgium.
They had the following children:
M i Eliyahu Moshe Frances was born on 12 Nov 1928. F ii Mathilde Mazaltov Frances was born on 24 May 1932.
Eliyahu Moshe Frances [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 12 Nov 1928 in Saloniki, Greece. He married Rachel Grunbaum on 3 Apr 1953 in Leopoldville, Congo. Eliyahu immigrated in 1929 to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He immigrated in 1930 to Brussels, Belgium.
Rachel Grunbaum [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 26 Feb 1928 in Marcinelle, Belgium. She died in 2000 in Belgium. The cause of death was Alzheimer. She married Eliyahu Moshe Frances on 3 Apr 1953 in Leopoldville, Congo.
David Moshe Frances [Parents] [scrapbook] was born in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). He died in 1943. He married Esther Tazartes. David was employed as real estate agent in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey then).
Esther Tazartes [Parents] [scrapbook] was born in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). She died in 1943. She married David Moshe Frances.
They had the following children:
F i Buena Tova Frances was born on 11/12 Jun 1902. She died on 7 Aug 1986. F ii Emma Frances. F iii Rebecca Frances was born about 1905. F iv Mathilde Mazaltov Frances was born in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). F v Rachel Frances [scrapbook] was born in 1918 in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). She died in 1943. M vi Moshe David Frances [scrapbook] was born in 1920 in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). He died in 1943.
Emmanuel Hazan [scrapbook].Emmanuel married Emma Frances.
My Great Grand Uncle in law.
To access his ultimate ancestry, check Meir HAZAN.
The first Hazan / Chazan known was the Kabbalist and poet Abraham Hazan of Gerona, Spain (13th century). His hymn Ahot ketanah depicts the suffering of the exiled Jewish people and is sung on the first night of Rosh Hashanah by Moroccan Jews. Indeed when you read the first letters of the poem going down you'll find the name Abraham Hazan.
His piyyutim can be found in the Sepharad, Italian and even Karait rite.
His French cousin, Rabbi Yosef ben Yehuda Hazan, a Talmudist, was the author of Sefer Yedidot and Mozne tsedek.The Hazan family left Sicily in 1562, led by their head, Rabbi Abraham of the House of Hazan (his grandfather, bearing the same name, died in 1535). The same year, his son Rabbi Shlomo Hazan stated that his family would not pay taxes in Saloniki. Shlomo, "who stood guard that no trouble come upon the community from the people who ruled the land" died in 1571 and was eulogized by Longo and Rabbi Moshe Almoshnino.
Some Hazan went to Saloniki, others to Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Some important members of the family were Hayyim Yosef Hazan, representative of the Rabbinate of Jerusalem in Europe (died in 1712); his son David Hayyim Hazan, representative of the Rabbinate of Jerusalem in Europe and owner of a printing press in Izmir; Yosef Eliyahu Hazan (17th century), rabbinical scholar; Moshe Avraham Hazan (15th century), poet and son of Abraham Hazan of Gerona; Rabbi Eliyahu Bechor Hazan (1840-1908), Chief Rabbi of Alexandria; Rabbi Israel Moshe Hazan (1808-1863), Chief Rabbi of Rome.
Emma Frances [Parents] [scrapbook] was born in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). She married Emmanuel Hazan.
They had the following children:
F i Esther Hazan "Etty". F ii Rachel Hazan [scrapbook]. M iii Moshe Hazan [scrapbook].
Aharon Grunwald [scrapbook] died on 13 Jun 1972. He married Rebecca Frances.
Rebecca Frances [Parents] [scrapbook] was born about 1905 in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). She married Aharon Grunwald.
They had the following children:
F i Sarina Grunwald was born in 1939.
Moshe Milibanc.Moshe married Sarina Grunwald.
Sarina Grunwald [Parents] [scrapbook] "Nina" was born in 1939. She married Moshe Milibanc.
They had the following children:
F i Esther Milibanc.
Rabbi Moshe David Frances [Parents] [scrapbook] was born in 1853 in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). He died in 1940 in Jerusalem, Israel . He was buried in Olive Mount, Israel. He married Benuta Tazartes. Moshe immigrated in 1932 to Jerusalem, Israel.
My 3 great grandfather.
Rabbi in Mayor Synagogue (the family synagogue since 1391) in Salonica.
Died in Jerusalem in Bikur Holim Hospital.The Frances family came to Greece from Majorca, Spain in 1391. It had lived in Valencia and Santa Coloma de Queralt before Majorca.
Among its important members were Rabbi Yaakov FRANCES (check); Rabbi Yosef FRANCES (check); Rabbi Mordechai FRANCES (check); Yitzhak Frances (died in 1740), Chief Rabbi of Larissa and writer of Pnei Yitzhak (published in Saloniki in 1753); Eliyahu Frances, Chef Rabbi of Antwerpen; Hayyim Frances, Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam; Doctor David Bechor FRANCES (check); Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov FRANCES (check).
During the 19th century, the family did business in woolens which were imported from England.
Benuta Tazartes [Parents] [scrapbook] was born in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). She married Rabbi Moshe David Frances.
My 3rd great grandmother.
An Ashkenazi family from Russia, they emigrated to Lucca, Italy and finally they established themselves in Saloniki around 1540. One of its proeminent members seems to have been Rabbi Moshe Tazartes, "the richest merchant of Turkey", who was robbed by the Jannissaires in 1760.
They had the following children:
M i David Moshe Frances died in 1943. M ii Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Moshe Frances was born on 17 Dec 1878. He died on 28 Sep 1942. F iii Fermoza Frances.
Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Moshe Frances [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 17 Dec 1878 in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). He died on 28 Sep 1942. He married Diamante Tazartes. Eliyahu immigrated in 1928 to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He was employed as Head of the Rabbinical Court in 1929 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
My 2 great grandfather.
Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Almost became Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel in 1939 when Chief Rabbi Bentsion Uziel became Rishon Le Zion.Member of the council of Histadrut Ha Mizrahi (religious Zionism).
Spoke many languages (Hebrew, Ladino, Spanish, French, Dutch...).
Diamante Tazartes [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 31 Aug 1877 in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). She died on 28 Sep 1942. She married Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Moshe Frances. Diamante immigrated in 1928 to Amsterdam, Netherlands.
They had the following children:
M i Moshe Eliyahu Frances was born on 17 Nov 1903. He died in 1980. M ii Daniel Eliyahu Frances was born on 9 Feb 1906. He died on 28 Sep 1942. M iii Yaakov Eliyahu Frances was born on 22 Aug 1910. F iv Dora Frances was born about 1913/1915.
Hayyim Tazartes [Parents] [scrapbook].Hayyim married Angela Mazaltov.
My 3rd great grandfather.
An Ashkenazi family from Russia, they emigrated to Lucca, Italy and finally they established themselves in Saloniki around 1540. One of its proeminent members seems to have been Rabbi Moshe Tazartes, "the richest merchant of Turkey", who was robbed by the Jannissaires in 1760.
Angela Mazaltov.Angela married Hayyim Tazartes.
My 3rd great grandmother.
Her ancestor, Rabbi Shlomo Mazaltov (16th century), introduced Ottoman melodies for Hebrew religious hymns and Judeo-Spanish songs. Rabbi Shlomo's cousin Moshe was a pupil of the well-known Isaac Luria (see Yitzhak LURIA).
They had the following children:
M i Azriel Tazartes. F ii Diamante Tazartes was born on 31 Aug 1877. She died on 28 Sep 1942. F iii Esther Tazartes died in 1943.
Yehuda Benjamin was born in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). He married Fermoza Frances.
My 2nd great grand uncle in law.
The Benjamin family left Provence, France in 1394. Some of them directly came to Saloniki, Greece. Others stayed in Calabria, Italy, until 1497.
Fermoza Frances [Parents] was born in Saloniki, Greece (Turkey at the time). She married Yehuda Benjamin.
They had the following children:
M i Asher Benjamin. F ii Emma Benjamin. F iii Gilda Benjamin died about 1941. M iv Moshe Benjamin died about 1942. F v Bella Benjamin died in 1943. F vi Sarina Benjamin.
