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Samuel ben Hophni haKohen haNagid, Gaon of Sura



Preferred Parents:
Father: Ḥophni "Hakhnochi" Yosef ben Yakob haKohen Bar Saṭya, ABD, Gaon of Sura and Jaen al-Andalus , b. 902   d. 969 in Mérida, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
Mother: Zadok Kahana, b. aproximadamente 0902 in Spain   

Family 1: Isha Shmuel ben Hophni HaKohen HaNagid bat Sherira Gaon of Sura 1st Wife,    b. Aprox 920 in España    d. in Spain
  1. bat Samuel ben Hophni Nagid I, b. um 0941 in Babylonia     d. ABT 1013
  2. Asmouna bat Shmuel ben Hofni ha-Kohen, b. 940 in Pumbedita, Iraq    
Sources:
  1. Title: Wikipedia Article on him
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_ben_Hofni;
    Note: "Samuel ben Hofni (Hebrew: שמואל בן חפני, or full name: רב שמואל בן חפני גאון [abbreviation: רשב"ח] or שמואל בן חפני הכהן; also: Samuel b. Hofni or Samuel ha-Kohen ben Hofni; died 1034) was the last gaon of Sura. His father was a Talmudic scholar and chief judge ("ab bet din," probably of Fez), one of whose responsa are extant (see Zunz, Ritus, p. 191; Steinschneider, Hebr. Bibl. xx. 132), and on whose death Samuel wrote an elegy. Samuel was the father-in-law of Hai ben Sherira Gaon, who is authority for the statement that Samuel, like many of his contemporaries, zealously pursued the study of non-Jewish literature.[1] Beyond these few data, nothing is known of the events of Samuel's life."

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