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title: "Rabbi Yehuda Leib Vilner Kramer"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yehuda-leib-vilner-kramer/
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: "Son of Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman and father of Esther Leib. He is the link between the Vilna Gaon and this family, and the best documented person in the whole branch."
---
# Rabbi Yehuda Leib Vilner Kramer

**Evidence status: documented.** Son of Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman and father of Esther Leib. He is the link between the Vilna Gaon and this family, and the best documented person in the whole branch.

1764 – 1816 · Son of the Vilna Gaon

## Other spellings

Yehudah Leib Vilner

## Summary

- Born: 1764
- Died: 15 February 1816
- Father: Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman, the Vilna Gaon
- Documented in: “Eliyahu's Branches”, by Chaim Freedman, 1997

## Family

- Father: Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/gaon-de-vilna/
- Mother: Chana bat Yehudah Leib — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/chana-bat-yehuda-leib/
- Married: Liba Serdek — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/liba-serdek/
- Children: Esther Leib — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/esther-leib/

## What is known

He is the person on whom the whole claim rests. If Yehuda Leib is the Gaon's son and Esther Leib's father, then the Vilna Gaon is Khana Reizel's great-grandfather, and the line of descent reaches this family.

His FamilySearch profile is the best documented in this branch: the first source attached to it is the genealogy published by Chaim Freedman in “Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Family” (1997), the reference work on the Gaon's descendants.

## 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/GD66-PJM

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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