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Memory🌳 Ashkenazicontemporaine· dès 1860 EC

The Dubnow Family

Write the Great Book

דובנוב

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

Simon Dubnow, historian of Judaism and theorist of diaspora autonomism, murdered in Riga in 1941.

Geographic origin: Mstsislaw → Odessa → Berlin → Riga

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Dubnow 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

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

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

To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Dubnow, remember and share its dedicated address:

zakhor.ai/dubnow

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

🔗 Cite / link this page

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Link

https://zakhor.ai/dubnow

HTML

<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/dubnow">Dubnow — Zakhor</a>

Citation

Dubnow — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/dubnow

Variants of the name (4)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

Latin3

DoubnovDubnovDoubnow

עברית · Hebrew1

דובנוב

Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    Simon Dubnow

    Historien, autonomiste

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 Dubnow.

Search “Dubnow” 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

The days of this book

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

  • A. Beider ; L. Menk, Dictionnaires des patronymes juifs d'Europe de l'Est (Beider : Empire russe 2008, Royaume de Pologne 1996, Galicie 2004) et judéo-allemands (Menk 2005), Avotaynu

Tags

#russie#historien#autonomisme

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