Alfandari

Alfandari was a family of eastern rabbis prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries, found in Smyrna, Constantinople, and Jerusalem.

A Portuguese family of the name Alphandéry still exists, as of 1906, in Paris and Avignon.

In Avignon there was a physician, Moses Alphandéry, in 1506,[1] and a Lyon Alphanderic, in 1558.

[2] Compare the names Moses אלפנדריך[3] and Aaron אלפנדארק.

[4] In addition to the persons mentioned above, there is known a Solomon Alfandari (Valencia, 1367), whose son Jacob assisted Samuel Ẓarẓa in tranṣlating the Sefer ha-'Aẓamim of pseudo-ibn Ezra from Arabic into Hebrew.