Aboab family
The Aboab family (Hebrew: אבוהב, "Abuhav"; Arabic: ابوآب, "Abuwab"; Turkish: Abuaf; Slavic: Abuyav) is an old and distinguished Western Sephardic family, originally from Aragon, Spain. The family has produced several notable rabbis, scholars, physicians, and merchants - especially achieving prominence in Amsterdam, Venice and Hamburg. The progenitor of the family is Rav Abraham Aboab, who, in 1263 was given a tower in Altea, Aragon with the surrounding dairy farms along with a heraldic achievement by James I of Aragon. Some have suggested that Aboab is a spelling of the Arabic "Abdelwahab", which means "the benefactor’s servant", while others have stated that it derives from the town of Umm al-Abohav in Tunisia.
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Q13955
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Turkish
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Slavic
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Western Sephardic
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Aragon
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Spain
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Amsterdam
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Venice
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Hamburg
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Rav Abraham Aboab
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Altea
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heraldic
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James I of Aragon
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Arabic
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Umm al-Abohav
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Tunisia
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Aboab family
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1263-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1263
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