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The Cohen Family
Write the Great Bookכהן
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Cohen lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
North African Jewish family, attested in the communities of Algeria, the Constantinois, the Oran region, the Sahara, Morocco, and Tunisia. Maurice Eisenbeth records 5 spelling variants of this surname in his 1936 onomastic dictionary. The entry describes the places of settlement, the written forms and, where known, the rabbinic or communal figures associated with the lineage. Meaning of the name: Hebrew: of the…
Geographic origin: Algérie, Constantinois, Oranie, Sahara, Maroc, Tunisie
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History
North African Jewish family, attested in the communities of Algeria, the Constantinois, the Oran region, the Sahara, Morocco, and Tunisia. Maurice Eisenbeth records 5 spelling variants of this surname in his 1936 onomastic dictionary. The entry describes the places of settlement, the written forms and, where known, the rabbinic or communal figures associated with the lineage.
Meaning of the name: Hebrew: of the family of the high priests — source: Dafina, "Les noms des Juifs du Maroc."
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Cohen — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/cohenVariants of the name (11)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin8
CahenCoenCohencaCohnCoinKahnKohenKohn
עברית · Hebrew3
Cohen כהןכהן Cohenכהן
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In memory
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Works & texts (1)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
Notable figures of the lineage
Aharon Cohen
mentionné en 1074
Messod Cohen
3ᵉ s. de l'ère hébraïque (1440–1539)
Abraham Cohen
4ᵉ s. de l'ère hébraïque (1540–1639)
Abraham Cohen
mentionné en 1591
Abraham Cohen
4ᵉ s. de l'ère hébraïque (1540–1639)
Aharon Cohen
mentionné en 1527
Haim I Cohen
4ᵉ s. de l'ère hébraïque (1540–1639)
Yaakov Cohen
mentionné en 1544
Yehuda Cohen
mentionné en 1588
Yehuda Cohen
mentionné en 1562
David Cohen
mentionné en 1669
Messod Cohen
5ᵉ s. de l'ère hébraïque (1640–1739)
Shmuel Cohen
mentionné en 1666
Shmuel Cohen
5ᵉ s. de l'ère hébraïque (1640–1739)
Yaakov Cohen
mentionné en 1648
Yosef Cohen
5ᵉ s. de l'ère hébraïque (1640–1739)
Yosef II Cohen
mort en 1611
Abraham Cohen
Maroc
Aharon Cohen
Maroc (Fès)
David Cohen
mort en 1761
David Cohen
mort en 1708
Efraim Cohen
Maroc
Haim II Cohen
6ᵉ s. de l'ère hébraïque (1740–1839)
Hanania Cohen
Maroc
Messod Cohen
mentionné en 1729
Mordekhay Cohen
mort en 1717
Moshe Cohen
mentionné en 1760
Rabbi Yossef ben Yaakov HaCohen (dit El-Haddad)
רבי יוסף בר ר' יעקב הכהן (אֶלְחַדָאד)Ouarzazate
Rabbi Yossef HaCohen
רבי יוסף הכהןTaroudant
Rafael Cohen
Maroc (Safi)
Shalem Cohen
mentionné en 1781
Shemaya Cohen
Maroc (Debdou)
Shlomo Cohen
mentionné en 1727
Shlomo Cohen
mentionné en 1727
Shmuel Cohen
Maroc (Fès)
Yehuda Cohen
Maroc (Meknès)
Yehuda Cohen
mentionné en 1770
Yekutiel Moshe Cohen
mentionné en 1788
Yeshaya Cohen
mentionné en 1732
Yitshak Cohen
Maroc (Sefrou)
Yitshak Cohen
Maroc
Yosef Cohen
mentionné en 1783
Yosef Cohen
6ᵉ s. de l'ère hébraïque (1740–1839)
Yosef Cohen
mort en 1778
Yosef Haim Cohen
Maroc (Mogador (Essaouira))
Yosef I Cohen
Maroc (Fès)
Zikri Cohen
Maroc (Fès)
David Cohen
mort en 1857
David Cohen
mentionné en 1819
Haim Cohen
né en 1836
Moshe Cohen
mentionné en 1861
Rafael Cohen
mentionné en 1821
Shalem Cohen
mentionné en 1849
Shlomo Cohen
mort en 1881
Shmaya Cohen
mentionné en 1836
Yaakov Cohen
7ᵉ s. de l'ère hébraïque (1840–1939)
Yaakov Cohen
mentionné en 1834
Yamin Cohen
mentionné en 1881
Yedidia Cohen
mentionné en 1839
Yitshak Cohen
mentionné en 1826
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Cohen give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- Maurice Eisenbeth, Les Juifs de l'Afrique du Nord — Démographie & Onomastique, Imprimerie du Lycée, Alger (1936)
- Abraham I. Laredo, Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc, CSIC, Madrid (1978)
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