Memory🌳 Alsatianmoderne· 1800 EC — 1862 EC

The Cahen Family

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

Rabbinical family from Metz (Moselle), a figure of emancipated Lorraine Jewry. Samuel Cahen (1796–1862), who directed the school of the Consistoire israélite of Paris, there produced the first modern Jewish French translation of the Hebrew Bible — eighteen volumes published from 1831 to 1851, Hebrew alongside and accompanied by notes —, an undertaking that formed an entire generation of French Jewry. The family…

Geographic origin: Metz, Moselle → Paris

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Variants of the name (2)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

Latin1

Cahen

עברית · Hebrew1

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Notable figures

1.
Samuel Cahen
Premier traducteur juif français moderne de la Bible
2.
Émile Cahen
rabbin français

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 Cahen.

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Works & texts (1)

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

Paris, 1831-1851

La Bible, traduction nouvelle avec l'hébreu en regard (18 vol.)

Samuel Cahen

Traduction / édition savante de Samuel Cahen. (Paris, 1831-1851)

Notable figures of the lineage

Samuel Cahen

1796–1862

Émile Cahen

1839–1916

Places along the journey

Metz

מץ

Grand Est (France)

Communities crossed

Les Juifs de Metz

via Metz

Diaspora regions

FranceFrance (Lorraine)

The days of this book

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

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