Zakhor is a living library and a digital encyclopedia devoted to the memory of the Jewish people, from the patriarchal era to the present day.
Our platform seeks to identify the contributions of Judaism to the other religions of the Book — Christianity and Islam — as well as their fundamental differences, in a spirit of mutual respect and academic rigor.
From the patriarchal era of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to the modern age, Zakhor offers a journey through the texts, manuscripts, and objects that shaped Jewish civilization and, by extension, Western and Middle Eastern culture.
For Jewish memory is also — and perhaps above all — the memory of our parents, our grandparents, and all those who came before us. It is their voices, their stories, their traditions, and their sacrifices that form the living fabric of our history. Each family carries within it an irreplaceable fragment of this collective memory, and it falls to us to gather it, to preserve it, and to transmit it before it fades away.
This is why we invite you to tell your lineage story — that of your family, your ancestors, your roots. Share your documents, your photographs, your objects, your memories: every testimony matters, every document enriches our common heritage. Zakhor is your platform, so that nothing may be forgotten.
Within five years, distinguishing authentic content from synthetic content will be impossible for the average person.
Videos, voices, texts, judicial evidence: generative artificial intelligence is advancing at such a pace that every type of media is becoming — or will soon become — undetectably falsifiable. Video deepfakes are already disconcertingly realistic. Voice cloning requires only a few seconds of recording. AI-generated texts are indistinguishable from human writing. Tomorrow, everything will be suspect.
In this context, the mission of the present generations takes on an existential dimension. The testimonies of our parents and grandparents, the family documents, the oral accounts, the photographs and manuscripts that we can still authenticate, date, and contextualize today will no longer be able to be so with the same certainty tomorrow. Every day that passes without gathering, without digitization, without verified attribution, is a day on which authentic memory fades in favor of a growing synthetic noise.
This is why Zakhor is not a project that can be put off until later. We may be the last generation capable of guaranteeing the authenticity of our heritage. To gather, verify, and transmit now is to offer the coming generations a foundation of truth on which they will be able to rely — a heritage that AI will be able neither to invent nor to forge, because it will have been documented, signed, and preserved by those who lived it.
Each text and object is documented with verifiable sources and precise metadata.
Multilingual interface (10 languages), RTL support, two levels of reading (scholarly and curious).
Anyone may enrich the library by submitting documents, photographs, and references.
The Zakhor collective is working to establish partnerships with the major institutions holding collections of Hebrew manuscripts.
One of the most important collections of Hebrew manuscripts in the world.
Hebrew manuscript collection — partnership efforts under way.
Historical archives and the Alliance's Luzzatto collection.
Contacts with several Italian interlocutors for access to the manuscripts.
