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Memory🌳 Frenchcontemporain· 1930 EC — 2004 EC

The Derrida Family

Write the Great Book

דרידה

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

Algiers Jewish family that emigrated to France after the war of independence. Jacques Derrida, founder of deconstruction, professor at the EHESS and at Yale, one of the most widely read philosophers in the world in the twentieth century.

Geographic origin: El-Biar (Alger), Paris

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Derrida 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

New YorkNew YorkParisParisPlace of Origin — AlgerAlger
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

This book tells the story of the Derrida. 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/derrida

The address zakhor.ai/derrida 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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Derrida — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/derrida

Variants of the name (2)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

Latin1

Derida

עברית · Hebrew1

דרידה

Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    Jacques Derrida

    Fondateur de la déconstruction

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 Derrida.

Search “Derrida” 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

AlgérieFranceÉtats-Unis

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Derrida 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

Tags

#francaise#alger#philosophie#deconstruction#lieu-geo-auto

Other lineages — French