Abulafia

Abulafia (the Anglicized version of the Arabic name Abu al-Afiyya, can refer to

Partial genealogy of the Abulafia family of Spain.

Name of a widely scattered Jewish family of Spanish origin, one of whose branches, for the sake of clearer designation, bore the surname of ha-Levi. Members of this family were found in various cities of the Orient and in Africa in the sixteenth century. From the data collected by Zunz, "Z. G." pp. 432-434, The first Abulafia lived in the twelfth century in Toledo, and the first Jew to settle in Spain in modern times was an Abulafia from Tunis. It is probable that Moses Afia and Solomon Afia, mentioned in 1445 as prominent men in Saragossa, belonged to the same family.
Samuel Abulafia, a thirteenth-century Jewish rabbi of that family.
His son, the kabbalist Abraham Abulafia.
Abulafia is also the name of a famous bakery in Tel Aviv's Jaffa district.

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