Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Elkan Family
Write the Great Bookאלקן
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Elkan lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
German-Jewish family exiled to London in 1934. Benno Elkan, sculptor, created the monumental Menorah of the Knesset (1956), a plastic summa of Jewish history based on the bronze he gave to the Parliament in Jerusalem.
Geographic origin: Dortmund, Londres
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Elkan 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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Writing
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In the meantime
Lineage Map
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/elkanHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/elkan">Elkan — Zakhor</a>Citation
Elkan — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/elkanVariants of the name (4)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
ElkannElcanElkin
עברית · Hebrew1
אלקן
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Notable figures
- 1.
Benno Elkan
Sculpteur, auteur de la Menorah de la Knesset
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 Elkan.
Search “Elkan” 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
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
AllemagneRoyaume-UniIsraël
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Elkan give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Tags
#anglaise#sculpture#menorah#knesset#lieu-geo-auto