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The Blecher Family

בלֶכֶר

Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Blecher lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.

Ashkenazi occupational surname meaning "tinsmith" (Yiddish/German Blech, "sheet metal"). Blecher derives from Germanic-Yiddish blekh; the variant Blacher is its Slavic parallel, from Polish blacharz. Borne by Jewish families across Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Romania, attested in the Grodno and Radom guberniyas. The Romanian writer Max Blecher (1909-1938) is its best-known figure. — Sources: A. Beider…

Geographic origin: Pologne, Lituanie, Ukraine, Roumanie

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Blecher lineage has not yet been written.

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History

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Blecher — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/blecher

Variants of the name (8)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

Latin5

BlacharBlekherBlajcherBlacherBlakher

עברית · Hebrew1

בלֶכֶר

Кириллица · Cyrillic2

БЛЯХЕРБлехер

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Notable figures

1.
Max Blecher
écrivain roumain

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 Blecher.

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Works & texts (1)

Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.

litteraire

Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată

Max Blecher

Roman de Max Blecher (1936), récit introspectif écrit en roumain.

Notable figures of the lineage

Max Blecher

מקס בלכר

1909–1938

Diaspora regions

RoumaniePologneLituanieRussieArgentine

The days of this book

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

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