Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Foa Family
Write the Great Bookפואה
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Foa lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Ancient Italian Jewish family from France (Foix), settled in Piedmont. Founded an important Hebrew printing dynasty.
Geographic origin: France → Italie (Piémont)
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Foa 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
Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).
Writing
Outline, chapters, bibliography — every page is sourced. Live streaming.
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In the meantime
Lineage Map
This book tells the story of the Foa. 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 Foa, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/foaThe address zakhor.ai/foa 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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Link
https://zakhor.ai/foaHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/foa">Foa — Zakhor</a>Citation
Foa — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/foaVariants of the name (4)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
FoahFuaFoua
עברית · Hebrew1
פואה
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Notable figures
- 1.
Tobias Foa
Imprimeur hébraïque à Sabbionetta
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 Foa.
Search “Foa” 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 (4)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
litteraire
Ludwig van Beethoven, ou le Petit maître de chapelle
Eugénie Foa
Récit romancé pour la jeunesse autour de Beethoven (1841).
litteraire
Le petit Robinson de Paris
Eugénie Foa
Roman pour la jeunesse d'Eugénie Foa (1857).
litteraire
Tirtza, chronique hébraïque
Eugénie Foa
Roman historique de la romancière française Eugénie Foa sur un sujet juif (1831).
litteraire
La Consolation d'une mère
Eugénie Foa
Récit pour la jeunesse d'Eugénie Foa (1857).
Notable figures of the lineage
Diaspora regions
FranceItaliePays-Bas
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Foa give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
Tags
#italienne#Piémont#imprimerie