Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Choueka Family
Write the Great Bookשוויקה
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Choueka lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Aleppine rabbinical family. Yaakov Choueka and his sons played an important role in Hebrew philology and publishing, as well as in the Syrian community of Brooklyn.
Geographic origin: Alep, Brooklyn
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Choueka 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
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In the meantime
Lineage Map
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https://zakhor.ai/chouekaHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/choueka">Choueka — Zakhor</a>Citation
Choueka — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/chouekaVariants of the name (3)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin2
ChuecaShueca
עברית · Hebrew1
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Notable figures
- 1.
Yaakov Choueka
Philologue, pionnier du Responsa Project
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 Choueka.
Search “Choueka” 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.
à partir des années 1970
Projet Responsa (système plein-texte de la littérature rabbinique, Bar-Ilan)
Yaacov Choueka (co-développeur et directeur 1974-1986)
Projet scientifique / base de données de Yaacov Choueka (co-développeur et directeur 1974-1986). (à partir des années 1970)
années 1990-2000
Rav-Milim (dictionnaire de l'hébreu moderne)
Yaacov Choueka (dir.)
Dictionnaire de Yaacov Choueka (dir.). (années 1990-2000)
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
SyrieÉtats-UnisIsraël
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Choueka give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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