Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Ashkenazi
The Fischer Family
Write the Great Bookפישר
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Fischer lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Fischer is a German-language surname. It is the fourth most common surname in Germany, the eleventh in Switzerland, and is among the hundred most common in the United States. In Israel, European Jewish immigrants bearing this name often changed it upon arrival to its Hebrew equivalent, Dayag.
Geographic origin: Israël, États-Unis
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Fischer 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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To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Fischer, remember and share its dedicated address:
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/fischerHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/fischer">Fischer — Zakhor</a>Citation
Fischer — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/fischerVariants of the name (8)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
FisherVischerVisscher
עברית · Hebrew1
פישר
العربية · Arabic1
فيشر
Кириллица · Cyrillic2
ФишерФішер
Ελληνικά · Greek1
Φίσερ
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Notable figures
- 1.
Shelomoh Fisher
Israeli rabbi and author
- 2.
Franklin Fisher
économiste américain
- 3.
Yisroel Yaakov Fisher
rabbin israélien
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 Fischer.
Search “Fischer” 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 (1)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
Notable figures of the lineage
Fischer Enoch
חנוך פישר1826–1896
Fischer Jedidja Gottlieb
ידידיה גוטליב פישר1810–1895
Franklin Fisher
פרנקלין מ. פישר1934–2019
Iván Fischer
איוואן פישר1951
Jan Fischer
יאן פישר1951
Otto Fischer
אוטו פישר1901–1941
Shelomoh Fisher
שלמה פישר1932–2021
Stanley Fischer
סטנלי פישר1943–2025
Yisroel Yaakov Fisher
ישראל יעקב פישר1928–2003
Diaspora regions
États-UnisIsraël
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Fischer give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- Fischer (Familienname) — Wikipédia (allemand) ↗
- 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
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