The Margulies - Remenyi Family
The Margulies are descended from the Margolioths, a line of distinguished rabbis and scholars.Margolioth is a family name that originates from the Hebrew word marga-li-th (margolis), marga-li-yôth (pl.)" , which means "pearl". Variants are: Margolis, Margulis, Margules, Margoliouth, Margoliut(h), Margo, Margolin, Margolinski, Margolinsky, etc. Wenn Heinrich Margulies emigrated to Palestine, he changed his name back to the hebrew form Margalit.
Various family names of same meaning are Perlman, Perelman, Perlstein, Perlmutter, Perelmuth, etc.
It has been said that the Margolioths can trace their ancestry back to Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitskhak, 1040-1105). (See Legends: Habsburg, Shmabsburg ! King David Rules, OK ! ) Whether this is true, is open to conjecture, but the descent back to Samuel Margolioth, dayyan (rabbinical judge) at Posen about 1550, can be seen in the Jewish Encyclopedia from 1905.
The name occurs also as Margaliot, Margolis, Margulies.
Polish family of Talmudic scholars that traces its descent from Rashi, on the one side, and from the families of Shor and Samuel Edels on the other. The first Margolioth known was Samuel, dayyan at Posen about 1550; one of his sons, Moses Mordecai, was rabbi at Krakau. www.jewishencyclopedia.com
(See this site for more information on the Margolioth Famlies, from 1550 - 1850.)
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Our Margulies family descends from Menahem Monis (Menachim Menish) Margolioth.
These pages tell some of the family history and chronicles of the Margulies and Remenyi families.
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