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Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Albo Family
Write the Great Bookאלבו
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Albo lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Aragonese family illustrated by Yossef Albo, philosopher and theologian, disciple of Hasdai Crescas and author of the Sefer ha-Ikkarim on the dogmas of Judaism.
Geographic origin: Aragon, Castille
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Albo lineage has not yet been written.
Claude Opus 4.8 will compose an original work from archival items in the corpus that mention this lineage, in-depth web research, and family contributions already submitted. The work will comprise approximately 30 to 40 pages — introduction, 5 to 7 chapters, conclusion — and will be automatically enriched with each new contribution.
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/alboHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/albo">Albo — Zakhor</a>Citation
Albo — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/alboVariants of the name (4)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
AlbouAlbuAlvo
עברית · Hebrew1
אלבו
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Notable figures
- 1.
Yossef Albo
Philosophe, auteur du Sefer ha-Ikkarim
In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Albo.
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Works & texts (9)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
1401-1500
Joseph Albo
Albo, Josef (1380?-1444?). Auteur du texte
1401-1500
Joseph Albo
Albo, Josef (1380?-1444?). Auteur du texte
1425
Sefer ha-Ikkarim (Le Livre des Principes)
Joseph Albo
Livre de Joseph Albo. (1425)
1454
Joseph Albo
Albo, Josef (1380?-1444?). Auteur du texte
1454
Joseph Albo
Albo, Josef (1380?-1444?). Auteur du texte
1469
Joseph Albo
Albo, Josef (1380?-1444?). Auteur du texte
1469
Joseph Albo
Albo, Josef (1380?-1444?). Auteur du texte
1474
Joseph Albo
Albo, Josef (1380?-1444?). Auteur du texte
1474
Joseph Albo
Albo, Josef (1380?-1444?). Auteur du texte
Notable figures of the lineage
Diaspora regions
Espagne
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Albo give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- Abraham I. Laredo, Les noms des Juifs du Maroc, CSIC, Instituto B. Arias Montano, Madrid (1978)
Tags
#aragon#philosophie#sefarade