Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Alcheikh Family
Write the Great Bookאלשייך
(Alsheikh)
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Alcheikh lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Meaning of the name: Arabic « the chief » — source: Dafina, « Les noms des Juifs du Maroc ». Arabic surname indicative of a title or function: the sheikh, the chief, borne by both Jews and Muslims. In Morocco, it was the title of the official in charge of relations with the Jewish community, equivalent to the Mokadem in Algeria and the Caïd in Tunisia. Other form: Ben Cheikh. — Source: J. Toledano, « Une histoire…
Geographic origin: Andrinople → Safed
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The Great Book of the Alcheikh lineage has not yet been written.
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History
Meaning of the name: Arabic « the chief » — source: Dafina, « Les noms des Juifs du Maroc ».
Arabic surname indicative of a title or function: the sheikh, the chief, borne by both Jews and Muslims. In Morocco, it was the title of the official in charge of relations with the Jewish community, equivalent to the Mokadem in Algeria and the Caïd in Tunisia. Other form: Ben Cheikh. — Source: J. Toledano, « Une histoire de familles : les noms de famille juifs d'Afrique du Nord ».
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/alcheikh">Alcheikh — Zakhor</a>Citation
Alcheikh — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/alcheikhVariants of the name (12)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin11
Al-CheikhAl-SheikhAlcheichAlchékhAlshechAlsheikhAlshekhAlshichEl-SheikhElcheikhALCHECH
עברית · Hebrew1
אלשייך
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Notable figures
- 1.
Rabbi Moshe Alsheikh
Commentateur biblique, prédicateur de Safed
- 2.
Moshe Alshekh
Prédicateur et exégète biblique
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 Alcheikh.
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Works & texts (3)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
première éd. près de Constantinople v. 1593 ; éd. complète Venise 1601
Torat Moshe (commentaire sur le Pentateuque)
Moïse Alsheikh
Commentaire biblique de Moïse Alsheikh. (première éd. près de Constantinople v. 1593 ; éd. complète Venise 1601)
Venise, 1605 ; réimpr. Berlin 1766
She'elot u-Teshuvot (Responsa de R. Moshe Alshich)
Moïse Alsheikh
Responsa de Moïse Alsheikh. (Venise, 1605 ; réimpr. Berlin 1766)
Marot ha-Tsove'ot (sur les Prophètes)
Moïse Alsheikh
Commentaire biblique de Moïse Alsheikh. (Venise, éd. postérieures)
Notable figures of the lineage
Diaspora regions
Terre d'IsraëlTurquie
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Alcheikh 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, Madrid (1978)
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