---
title: "Chana bat Yehudah Leib"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/chana-bat-yehuda-leib/
lang: en
work: "The Smud Family: A Jewish Family History from Ludza, Latvia to Entre Ríos, Argentina"
author: "Mateo Smud"
licence: CC0-1.0
summary: "Wife of Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman and mother of Yehuda Leib. Trees list her as the daughter of Yehudah Leib of Keiden."
---
# Chana bat Yehudah Leib

**Evidence status: documented.** Wife of Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman and mother of Yehuda Leib. Trees list her as the daughter of Yehudah Leib of Keiden.

1724 – 1782 · Wife of the Vilna Gaon

## Other spellings

Hannah, Chana or Hannah bat Yehudah Leib of Keiden

## Summary

- Born: 1724
- Died: 1782

## Family

- Married: Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/gaon-de-vilna/
- Children: Rabbi Yehuda Leib Vilner Kramer — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yehuda-leib-vilner-kramer/

## What is known

Her name always appears with the patronymic —bat Yehudah Leib, daughter of Yehudah Leib— and with the reference to Keiden, today Kėdainiai, in Lithuania.

## Where this comes from

- Chaim Freedman's work (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#freedman
- FamilySearch (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#familysearch

## In FamilySearch's collaborative tree (not a source)

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G814-7Q3

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The Smud Family · genealogical research by Mateo Smud, published under CC0 1.0. Machine index: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/llms.txt