"Barbanel", "Voronel", "Abraben" and "Arnell" Boris Pasternak, the Russian 20th-century author of Dr. Zhivago, whose family claimed to be descended from Isaac Abravanel. See also Abravanel Hall Davidic line Benveniste Sephardi Pinkas haKehilot 1632 series which has fictional members of the Abrabanel family with one (Rebecca) a central character Notes Usque, Samuel, Consolaçam as Tribulaçoẽs de Ysrael (Ferrara, 1553; 2d ed. Amsterdam, n.d.) Grätz, Heinrich, Geschichte der Juden, ix 47 et seq., 327 et seq. Kayserling, Meyer, Geschichte der Juden in Portugal, p. 264 —, Die Jüdischen Frauen, pp. 77 et seq. References Elazar Ari Lipinski: Pesach - A holiday of questions. About the Haggadah-Commentary of Rabbi Isaak Abarbanel (1437–1508). Published first in German in the official quarterly of the Organization of the Jewish Communities of Bavaria: Jüdisches Leben in Bayern. Mitteilungsblatt des Landesverbandes der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinden in Bayern. Pessach-Ausgabe = Nr. 109, 2009, , S. 3–4. Jewish families Jewish royalty Sephardic surnames Davidic line