Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Sephardic
The Chiche Family
Write the Great Bookשיש
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Chiche lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Patronymic probably of Hebrew origin, a phonetic alteration of chaïch, marble, white as marble, figuratively immaculate, pure, to be compared with the Berber Melloul and the Spanish Albo. The Arabic origin is, however, also plausible, designating a type of dagger. — Source: J. Toledano, « Une histoire de familles : les noms de famille juifs d'Afrique du Nord ».
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Chiche 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).
Writing
Outline, chapters, bibliography — every page is sourced. Live streaming.
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In the meantime
This book tells the story of the Chiche. 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 Chiche, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/chicheThe address zakhor.ai/chiche leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/chicheHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/chiche">Chiche — Zakhor</a>Citation
Chiche — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/chicheVariants of the name (18)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin17
ChichCHICHAChichiCHICHPORTICHCHICHPORTICHEFARTOUKHPARTOUCHESISSPARTOUCHSPORTESSPORTICHSPORTICHESPORTISSPORTISSESPORTOUCHSPORTOUCHECHICHAY
עברית · Hebrew1
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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 Chiche.
Search “Chiche” 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.
recueil compilé v. 1666-1670 ; éd. abrégée 1737 ; éd. complète 1954
Tsitsat Novel Tsevi (La Fleur fanée de la beauté)
Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas
Livre de Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas. (recueil compilé v. 1666-1670 ; éd. abrégée 1737 ; éd. complète 1954)
Amsterdam, 1737 (posthume, publié par son fils Abraham)
Ohel Ya'akov (responsa)
Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas
Responsa de Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas. (Amsterdam, 1737 (posthume, publié par son fils Abraham))
Notable figures of the lineage
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Chiche 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