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Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Cohen Tawil (Jérusalem) Family
Write the Great Bookכהן טוויל
(Cohen Tawil)
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Cohen Tawil (Jérusalem) lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Priestly branch of the Tawil family of Aleppo. The Cohen Tawil of Jerusalem include several Sephardic rabbis of the old yishuv and are renowned for transmitting the Syrian bakkashot chant.
Geographic origin: Alep, Jérusalem
Memory register · custodian, not owner
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Cohen Tawil (Jérusalem) — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/cohen-tawilVariants of the name (2)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin1
Cohen Touwel
עברית · Hebrew1
כהן טוויל
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Notable figures
- 1.
Yaakov Cohen Tawil
Rabbin séfarade du vieux yichouv
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 Cohen Tawil (Jérusalem).
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Works & texts (2)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
Et Sofer (édité par lui, œuvre de son père)
père de Rabbi Haïm Ali ha-Cohen Tawil (édition posthume par R. Haïm Ali)
Livre (édition) de père de Rabbi Haïm Ali ha-Cohen Tawil (édition posthume par R. Haïm Ali).
Metza Hayim (recueil de derushim / homélies)
Rabbi Haïm Ali ha-Cohen Tawil
Livre (derush / homilétique) de Rabbi Haïm Ali ha-Cohen Tawil.
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
SyrieTerre d'Israël
The days of this book
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#sacerdotale#alep#jerusalem#bakkachot#lieu-geo-auto