Rabbi Jonatan of Drobin
The articles below, explore the family of Rabbi Jonatan of Drobin. Contemporary writings identify him as a nephew of Rabbi Jonatan Eybeschuetz of Prague (and Hamburg). Writers more than 100 years after his death, have identified his father as Aaron, the brother of Jonatan Eybeschuetz. However, there is a significant question of the reliability of those sources. The first paper below examines the statistical likelihood that Aaron is the name of the father of Rabbi Jonatan of Drobin. The second paper is somewhat more general and explores the use of these kinds of statistical methods for identifying ancestral names. The third paper gathers the known information, much of which comes from civil records, about the descendants of Rabbi Jonatan of Drobin.