Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The da Costa Family
Write the Great Bookדא קושטא
(Da Costa)
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the da Costa lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Family of Portuguese Marranos settled in Amsterdam. Uriel da Costa, a heterodox thinker excommunicated twice by the community, took his own life in 1640, prefiguring the Spinozist crisis.
Geographic origin: Porto, Amsterdam
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the da Costa 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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Link
https://zakhor.ai/da-costaHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/da-costa">da Costa — Zakhor</a>Citation
da Costa — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/da-costaVariants of the name (4)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
AcostaCostaDACOSTA
עברית · Hebrew1
דא קושטא
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Notable figures
- 1.
Uriel da Costa
Penseur hétérodoxe
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 da Costa.
Search “da Costa” 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
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Diaspora regions
Pays-BasPortugal
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document da Costa give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
Tags
#amsterdam#marranes#sefarade#lieu-geo-auto