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Memory🌳 Sephardicmoderne· 1560 EC — 1605 EC

The de Boton Family

Write the Great Book

די בוטון

(De Boton)

Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the de Boton lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.

Rabbinical family of Salonika. Abraham de Boton is the author of the Lehem Mishneh, a classic commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah printed in the standard editions.

Geographic origin: Salonique

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the de Boton 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.

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Collection

Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.

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Web research

Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).

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Writing

Outline, chapters, bibliography — every page is sourced. Live streaming.

Get a single link: it signs you in if you already have an account, or creates one — no password. This finalises your proposal and lets you follow its review.

Lineage Map

Place of Origin — SaloniqueSalonique
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

This book tells the story of the de Boton. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.

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zakhor.ai/de-boton

The address zakhor.ai/de-boton leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.

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Citation

de Boton — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/de-boton

Variants of the name (6)

One name, a hundred faces.

The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.

Latin5

BotonBottonBoutonButonBOHON

עברית · Hebrew1

די בוטון

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Notable figures

  • 1.

    Abraham de Boton

    Commentateur du Mishné Torah

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 de Boton.

Search “de Boton” on Yad Vashem

The 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

Communities crossed

Diaspora regions

Grèce

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document de Boton give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Bibliography

Tags

#halakha#lieu-geo-auto#salonique#sefarade

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