Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Firkovich Family
Write the Great Bookפירקוביץ
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Firkovich lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Karaite dynasty of Crimea under Ottoman and then Russian rule. Abraham Firkovich traveled throughout the East, collecting thousands of manuscripts now in Saint Petersburg — the basis of Karaite research.
Geographic origin: Loutsk, Crimée
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Firkovich 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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Lineage Map
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/firkovich">Firkovich — Zakhor</a>Citation
Firkovich — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/firkovichVariants of the name (2)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin1
Firkowicz
עברית · Hebrew1
פירקוביץ
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Notable figures
- 1.
Abraham Firkovich
Savant karaïte, collecteur de manuscrits
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 Firkovich.
Search “Firkovich” 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 (2)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
fin XVe – début XVIe s.
Avnei Zikaron
Abraham ben Salomon Adrutiel (Ardotial)
Ouvrage de Kabbale de Abraham ben Salomon Adrutiel (Ardotial). (fin XVe – début XVIe s.)
milieu du XIXe s.
Collections de manuscrits Firkovich (première et seconde collections)
Abraham Firkovich (collecteur)
Manuscrit de Abraham Firkovich (collecteur). (milieu du XIXe s.)
Notable figures of the lineage
Diaspora regions
CriméeRussieLituanie
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Firkovich give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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#ottomane#karaite#crimee#manuscrits