Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
🌳 MizrahiXIXe–XXe s.
The Avidani Family
Write the Great Bookאבידני
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Avidani lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Jewish family from Narwa and Amadiya in Iraqi Kurdistan, illustrated by Hakham Allwan Shimon Avidani (1881-1981), head of the rabbinical court of Amadiya who translated the Bible into the Judeo-Aramaic of Amadiya.
Geographic origin: Kurdistan (Narwa / Amadiya)
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Avidani 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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In the meantime
This book tells the story of the Avidani. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/avidaniHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/avidani">Avidani — Zakhor</a>Citation
Avidani — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/avidaniVariants of the name (6)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
AbidaniAvdaniAvidan
עברית · Hebrew2
אבידןאבידני
Кириллица · Cyrillic1
Авидан
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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 Avidani.
Search “Avidani” on Yad VashemThe search is performed directly in the Yad Vashem archives; Zakhor neither copies nor retains any personal data. The presence or absence of a name in the database is not exhaustive. Learn more
Works & texts (3)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
1954
Berazim arufei sfatayim (Robinets aux lèvres coupées)
David Avidan
Recueil de poésie de David Avidan. (1954)
éditions Jérusalem 1974 / 1978
Ma'asei Gedolim (sermons sur les parashiyot)
Hakham Allwan Shimon Avidani
Livre (derashot) de Hakham Allwan Shimon Avidani. (éditions Jérusalem 1974 / 1978)
Traduction de la Bible en judéo-araméen (néo-araméen) de Narwa/Amadiya
Hakham Allwan Shimon Avidani
Traduction / commentaire de Hakham Allwan Shimon Avidani.
Notable figures of the lineage
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Avidani give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- Q37004724 — Wikidata ↗
- A. Stahl ; M. H. Eshel ; A. Ariel, Origins of Jewish Names (Stahl, 2005) ; Family Names in Israel (Eshel, 1967) ; The Book of Names — 200 Most Popular Surnames in Israel (Ariel, 1997)
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