Rabbi Yitzhak HaCohen Katz, [of Galata]

• *****Yitzchak lived in Galata, Turkey and not Galanta, Slovakia. Any mention of Galanta is a mistake.

Rabbi Yitzchak Katz, of pure Spanish ancestry, was Chief of the Rabbinical Court of Galata. One of the exiles of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, he miraculously survived along with the great Rabbi Avraham Sabbah, the great Rabbi Avraham Zacuto, and the great Rabbi Yitzchak Karo and another three Jews from the 20,000 Jews that were forcibly transported to Lisbon and forced, against their will, to apostasy. For several years he lived in Salonica with his father, and after this moved to Galata, in Constantinople, and there served as Chief of the Rabbinical Court of the community of the exiles of Spain and Portugal until his death.

Name: Itzhak Ha-Cohen KATZ

Birth: ABT 1400 in Salonika, Central Macedonia, Greece

Death: in Galata

Occupation: Head of the rabbinic court in the city of Galata and district of Pera near the capital city of Constantinople

Father: Akiva (Rabbi) HaCohen KATZ b: ABT 1360 in Spain

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown

Children

• Hayyim (Rabbi) KATZ b: ABT 1466 in Salonika, Central Macedonia,
• Akiva HaGaon HaCohen KATZ of Budin b: ABT 1460 in Salonika, Central Macedonia, Greece
• Shabtai Bar Isshai KATZ b: ABT 1463 in Salonika, Central Macedonia, Greece

Sources: A world apart: a memoir of Jewish life in nineteenth century Galicia. Author: Joseph Margoshes, Ira Robinson, Rebecca Margolis. Page: p. 184

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