Skip to content
Zakhor
Memory🌳 PriestlyLineage (priestly / levitical)EstablishedUnited Monarchy· 1000 AEC — 150 AEC

The Bet Zadok ha-Cohen Family

Write the Great Book

בית צדוק הכהן

(House of Zadok)

Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Bet Zadok ha-Cohen lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.

Descendants of the high priest Tzadok (Davidic era), who monopolized the office of high priest during the First Temple and the early Second Temple. The Sadducees (Tzadokim) take their name from him.

Geographic origin: Jérusalem

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Bet Zadok ha-Cohen 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.

01

Collection

Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.

02

Web research

Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).

03

Writing

Outline, chapters, bibliography — every page is sourced. Live streaming.

Get a single link: it signs you in if you already have an account, or creates one — no password. This finalises your proposal and lets you follow its review.

Lineage Map

JudéeJudéePlace of Origin — JérusalemJérusalem
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

This book tells the story of the Bet Zadok ha-Cohen. 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 Bet Zadok ha-Cohen, remember and share its dedicated address:

zakhor.ai/bet-zadok-ha-cohen

The address zakhor.ai/bet-zadok-ha-cohen 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/bet-zadok-ha-cohen

HTML

<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/bet-zadok-ha-cohen">Bet Zadok ha-Cohen — Zakhor</a>

Citation

Bet Zadok ha-Cohen — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/bet-zadok-ha-cohen

Variants of the name (3)

One name, a hundred faces.

The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.

Latin2

Bnei TzadokSadducéens

עברית · Hebrew1

בית צדוק הכהן

Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    Tzadok ha-Cohen

    Grand prêtre sous David et Shlomo

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 Bet Zadok ha-Cohen.

Search “Bet Zadok ha-Cohen” on Yad Vashem

The 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

Places along the journey

Diaspora regions

Judée

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Bet Zadok ha-Cohen give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Tags

#sacerdotale#tsadokim#sadduceens#lieu-geo-auto

Other lineages — Priestly