THE BERDUGO FAMILY

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The Ancestors and Family of Samuel Berdugo

Moshe BERDUGO hakadmon

The founder of the BERDUGO Family is Rabbi Moshe BERDUGO or "Grande Sabio." Moshe was born around 1600. According to tradition, he is a descendant of the male line of King David via the exilarch Bustanai. Moshe BERDUGO married Luna.

The Rabbi Raphael BERDUGO synagogue on rue El M'da (Bath Street) attached to the Benaroch Synagogue was founded around 1492 by the BERDUGO family shortly after their arrival from Spain. It was named after the famous Rabbi Raphael BERDUGO (The Angel Raphael) and then his grandson Jacob. Early in the century, the synagogue was led by Rabbis from the BERDUGO family including Joshua ben Ya'acov. The synagogue was longer than it was wide, and rather plain. It would hold 150 congregants and served on occasion as Yeshiva under the direction of BERDUGO Rabbis. Once a year, during the month of Elul, Rabbis met there to celebrate the Pidiyoun Hanafashot ceremony (symbolic redemption of souls with money given to community poor, guaranteeing a long life).

Moshe and Luna had a son called Rabbi Itzhak BERDUGO or "Sabio".

Itzhak was a Rabbi in Meknes, Morocco (b. around 1650). Rabbi Itzhak BERDUGO was called "Ha-Yachich" (the elder, or the ancestor). He had three sons: Moshe, Abraham and Yossef.

  • Moshe BERDUGO (missing on the handdrawn family tree.)
  • Rabbi Abraham BERDUGO was Rabbi in Meknes, (17th century). Abraham BERDUGO married a daughter of Rabbi Hayyim TOLEDANO.
    • Isaac BERDUGO (missing on the handdrawn family tree.)
    • Chief Rabbi Moses ben Abraham BERDUGO, called "Mashbir" or "Machbir" (c. 1679-1730) was judge, rabbi and teacher. He was a student of the exceptional master Rabbi Yossef Bahtit. After the death of Rabbi Moshe TOLEDANO (1723) he succeeded as head of the rabbinical court in Meknes where the BERDUGOs settled after leaving Fez. Author of several books (some unpublished). His masterpiece was Roch Mashbir, a collection of commentaries on the Torah and the Talmud (volume 1 printed 1840, Livourne, volume 2 printed 1975, Jerusalem). His book of responsa was copied by hand for generations of rabbis and was published by the Fondation de Diffusion des Anciens Manuscrits founded in Meknes by Rabbi Shalom MESSAG. His book Kanaf Renanim is commentary on Genesis and Rachi's commentaries thereof.

His students included Rabbi Mordechai Assaban, Rabbi Haïm TOLEDANO, Rabbi Yaacov TOLEDANO, Rabbi Mordecai BERDUGO, and Rabbi Yehuda mim mokim BERDUGO. (See Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 4, p. 591.)
He had two sons and twenty-one daughters.

Branch Aleph of BERDUGO family

(See Handdrawn Family Tree of Branch Aleph by Rabbi Raphael BERDUGO.)

Yehuda mim 'mokim BERDUGO

Yehuda BERDUGO (b. 1689/1690, d. 1744) son of Yosef BERDUGO was named dayyan in Meknes in 1730 following Moses ben Abraham BERDUGO, the Mashbir. (Mashbir is acronym of ???). He was a talented teacher. He was a childhood friend of the famous Rabbi Haïm Benattar from Sale who lived in Meknes at that time.

Yehuda wrote many books. He was the author of Mayim Amukkim (deep waters), a commentary on the torah and haftorahs (which was later commented on by Petahiah Mordecai BERDUGO among others, although unpublished until 1910. The book was republished in 1975, by one of his descendants also named Yehuda BERDUGO, along with commentaries from Rabbi Hay Yaacov Zrihen of Tiberius who in the introduction describes Yehuda mim 'mokim as the Maimonides of Morocco. This book was supposed to be published along with Rabbi Hayim Benattar's Or Hayim. However, Rabbi Benattar had to leave Morocco suddenly before he could take the manuscript. Many commentaries have been written on Mayim Amukkim despite its late publication (See for example those of Rabbi Lasri of Algers, Moshe ELBAZ of Sefrou, or Yaakov and Yossef BERDUGO of Meknes.) Until its publication the book (like other classic works by the Mashbir) were copied by hand.

Some of Yehuda mim 'mokim BERDUGO's responsa have been published in the responsa of Jacob ibn Zur. Other responsa and Mahane Yeouda have not yet been published.

He had two sons.

Schlomo BERDUGO son of Yehuda BERDUGO son of Schlomo BERDUGO

  • Yehuda BERDUGO. (Does not appear on handdrawn tree.)
    • Yeouda BERDUGO
      • Abraham BERDUGO. Important silk trader.
        • Hayim BERDUGO. Master of the Torah in Meknes, early 20th century. Hayim was a disciple of the Rabbi Hayim MESSAG. At the age of 25, he founded the Yeshiva Bet El v'Etz Hayim which educated a generation of illustrious rabbis from Meknes and all over Morocco including Rabbis Yossef MESSAG and Barouch TOLEDANO. Died in the 1950s.
  • Eliezar BERDUGO
    • Shlomo BERDUGO
      • Meir BERDUGO
        • Schlomo BERDUGO (children: Abidam BERDUGO and Meir Ben Tzion BERDUGO)
  • Abraham BERDUGO .
    • Shlomo BERDUGO
    • Haïm BERDUGO (1873-1944)
      • Schlomo BERDUGO
      • Yichieh BERDUGO
      • Abraham BERDUGO
        • Mimoun BERDUGO (children: Meir, Abraham, Oulma, Nahum)
        • Yehouda BERDUGO (child: Meir, David, Abraham)
        • Haim BERDUGO
      • Moise BERDUGO married Dinah
  • Meir BERDUGO
  • Daniel BERDUGO married Luna
    • Grand Rabbi Salomon BERDUGO
    • Yehuda BERDUGO married Messody ??.
      • Samuel BERDUGO
      • Esther BERDUGO married unknown. Children: Albert, Gracia, Messody
      • Daniel BERDUGO
        • Hasibah BERDUGO
        • Nisim BERDUGO (children: Schlomo (=Selma?), Daniel, Eliezer, Chaim)
        • Mordecai BERDUGO (children: Gaby, Yosef and Daniel)
        • Yehuda BERDUGO married Geulah TOLEDANO (children: Schlomo and Daniel)
        • Messody BERDUGO. Son: Saul.
        • Haim BERDUGO. Children: Mathilde BERDUGO, Rebecca BERDUGO, Simone BERDUGO, Maurice BERDUGO, Gaby BERDUGO, Michel BERDUGO.
      • Mordehai BERDUGO. Children: Hadas BERDUGO, Miriam BERDUGO, Levanan BERDUGO
      • Eliahu BERDUGO

Samuel BERDUGO   photo   (ben Yehudah BERDUGO ben Daniel BERDUGO) was born in Meknes, and died September 1980 in Haifa, Israel. He married Anna BERDUGO 1932 in Rabat, Morocco, daughter of Rabbi Yekoutiel BERDUGO and Simcha ABENSOUR. They lived in Kiriat Motzkin  (Haifa).  He married a distant cousin, with whom he had six children. Israel was founded in 1948.  They emigrated there in the 1960's breaking the connection with Morocco that had lasted for hundreds of years.  For more information on the Jews of Morocco go to http://rickgold.home.mindspring.com/

  • Dr Yehuda BERDUGO (b. 14 April 1933 Rabat) photo. He married Vardina ABRAMOVICI August 20, 1959, daughter of Binyamin ABRAMOVICI and Tzila RABINOVICH.  Lives in Jerusalem
    • Nehama BERDUGO, b. November 29, 1961, Haifa. She married Lawrence SAMSON August 23, 1983 in Los Angeles.
      • Tovah Zipporah SAMSON, b. February 14, 1991.
      • Benjamin SAMSON, b. April 5, 1994.
      • Hava Zemira SAMSON, b. May 11, 1995.
    • Ygal Yekutiel BERDUGO, b. December 19, 1966, Belo-Horizonte, Brazil. He married Mona Felice FARKAS August 1, 1993 in New York, Jerusalem.
      • Noah Channa BERDUGO, b. February 19, 1995.
      • Binyamin Shlomo BERDUGO, b. March 23, 1997.
      • Rachel Tehila BERDUGO, b. August 25, 1998.
      • Rivka Pesal BERDUGO, b. August 16, 2000.
    • Hadass Bina Malka BERDUGO, b. September 7, 1977, Pittsburgh  . She married Burech WALDMAN January 23, 1997 in Toronto. Remarried Yitzchak  Rosenbluth on August 29, 2004 in Jerusalem.  photo
      • Shmuel WALDMAN, b. January 14, 1998.
         
  • Marcelle BERDUGO (b. Rabat, Morocco) photo, lives in Nahariya Israel. She married Shlomo DAYAN January 25, 1956 in Rabat, Morocco.
    • Orly DAYAN, b. Rabat. She married Aaron SALMAN August 6, 1979 in Nahariya.
      • Dvir SALMAN, b. July 24, 1981, Haifa.
      • Liron SALMAN, b. February 12, 1985, Nahariya.
      • Shiri SALMAN, b. March 26, 1993, Nahariya.
    • Michael DAYAN married Mira KATZ in Haifa.
      • Ziv DAYAN, b. August 5, 1988, Nahariya
      • Lital DAYAN, b. November 15, 1992, Nahariya.
    • Gila DAYAN  photo, b. Nahariya; m. Philip BRODIE March 16, 2000, Jerusalem.  Live in London, England
      • Elyana BRODIE, b.16 July 2003
        Samuel David b 17 February 2005
        Orielle b 19 July 2007
  • David BERDUGO  photo  (b. 26 September 1936, Rabat - August 9, 2002). He married Rachel PERETZ June 14, 1966 in Haifa, Israel, daughter of Victor PERETZ and Annie BENATTAR.  Rachel lives in Toronto.
    • Yael BERDUGO,  b. April 3, 1967, Haifa, Israel. She married (February 6, 1996 in New York) Danny SHEDLO.
      • Nathaniel Ronen SHEDLO (b. 12 Mar. 1998, New York)
      • Tehila Yona SHEDLO. (b. November 22,  2000, New Jersey)
      • Odelia Yakira SHEDLO /(b. January 7, 2004, New Jersey)
    • Elite BERDUGO, b. March 29, 1971, Haifa, Israel. She married Avigdor COLLINS , January 9, 1992 in Jerusalem.
      • Jonathan Shai COLLINS, b. March 25, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel.
      • Meirav Chen COLLINS, b. April 18, 1998, Toronto, Canada.
      • Galit Avital  COLLINS/,  (b. July 15, 2004, Toronto, Canada)
         
  • Viviane BERDUGO (b. Rabat) photo.  married (November 25, 1976 in Haifa, Israel).  Obtained her B.Sc from the University of Bordeaux and her M.Sc in Marine Biology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and then specialised in plankton at the Institute of Marine Science in Haifa.  She received two UNESCO Fellowships to carry out plankton research in England.   Jack WHITE (b Leeds) received his BA from the Open University, Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resources Management at Sheffield Hallam University and Postgraduate Certificate in Further Education at Portsmouth University. He is the  son of Charles WINE and Betty PEARLSON. They live in London.
    • Mark Koty WHITE b. March 27, 1978, Jerusalem, Israel. Lives in London.  He received his B.Sc in Finance and Accounting at the London School of Economics. He is a Pricipal Software Architect with Expedia.  
    • Daniel Charles WHITE b. December 3, 1979, Solihull, England.  He received his BSc in Psychology at Oxford Brookes in 2006 and MSc in Health Psychology at Kings University (University of London) in 2007.  He now lives in Tel Aviv working in patent registration.
       
  • Kotiel (Ykotiel) BERDUGO (b. 11 November 1942). He married Susan GREGORY. Kotiel lives in Dallas, TX.
  • Esther BERDUGO (b. Rabat) photo. She married Daniel PELED in Haifa, Israel.  They live in Kiriat Motzkin, Israel
    • Michal PELED m Daniel Weinburger in Haifa on 1st March 2007
      • Yael (b 9 May 2008
      Karin PELED m Yishay Atar on 21st October in Israel
      Ami PELED