Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Besht Family
Write the Great Bookבעל שם טוב
(Baal Shem Tov)
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Besht lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Founding lineage of Hasidism. Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov, 1698-1760) initiated the popular mystical revival in Ukraine.
Geographic origin: Miedzyboz, Podolie
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Besht 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.
Web research
Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).
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In the meantime
Lineage Map
This book tells the story of the Besht. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.
To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Besht, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/beshtThe address zakhor.ai/besht leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.
🔗 Cite / link this page
Copy any of these formats to cite this page or link to it.
Link
https://zakhor.ai/beshtHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/besht">Besht — Zakhor</a>Citation
Besht — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/beshtDoes your family write this name differently?
Notable figures
- 1.
Rabbi Israël Baal Shem Tov
Fondateur du hassidisme
- 2.
Rabbi Dov Ber de Mezritch
Successeur du Besht, grand diffuseur du hassidisme
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 Besht.
Search “Besht” 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 (2)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
fin XVIIIᵉ s.
Tzava'at ha-Rivash (« Testament » du Besht)
Israël ben Eliezer (attribué / posthume)
Recueil d'enseignements (posthume) de Israël ben Eliezer (attribué / posthume). (fin XVIIIᵉ s.)
Żółkiew, 1794/1795
Keter Shem Tov (recueil posthume des enseignements du Besht)
Israël ben Eliezer (compilé par Aaron ha-Kohen d'Apta)
Recueil d'enseignements (posthume) de Israël ben Eliezer (compilé par Aaron ha-Kohen d'Apta). (Żółkiew, 1794/1795)
Notable figures of the lineage
Diaspora regions
UkrainePologneRussie
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Besht give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Tags
#hassidique#mystique#Podolie