Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
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The Dadoun Family
Write the Great Bookדדון
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Dadoun lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Meaning of the name: Berber, from the Oulad Doudoun (Ida Ou Blal, Moroccan Sahara); or from Dâwd (David) — source: Dafina, « The names of the Jews of Morocco ». Surname of Arabic origin, no doubt indicative of an origin: territory of the Oulad Dadoun tribe in southern Morocco, or originating from the Dadès region; borne by Jews and Muslims. Another possibility: Berber augmentative of the surname David (Daoud)…
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A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Dadoun 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
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In the meantime
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History
Meaning of the name: Berber, from the Oulad Doudoun (Ida Ou Blal, Moroccan Sahara); or from Dâwd (David) — source: Dafina, « The names of the Jews of Morocco ».
Surname of Arabic origin, no doubt indicative of an origin: territory of the Oulad Dadoun tribe in southern Morocco, or originating from the Dadès region; borne by Jews and Muslims. Another possibility: Berber augmentative of the surname David (Daoud). Other spellings: Dadon, Dadoune. — Source: J. Toledano, « Une histoire de familles : les noms de famille juifs d'Afrique du Nord ».
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/dadounHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/dadoun">Dadoun — Zakhor</a>Citation
Dadoun — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/dadounVariants of the name (7)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin6
DaddounDADINODadonDADONEDadouneDANOUN
עברית · Hebrew1
דדון
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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 Dadoun.
Search “Dadoun” 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 (1)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
Notable figures of the lineage
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Dadoun give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- Abraham I. Laredo, Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc, CSIC, Madrid (1978)