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The Fulda Family

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

Toponym (abbatial city of Fulda), name of Jewish families of Hesse and Frankfurt.

Geographic origin: Allemagne (Fulda, Hesse)

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Fulda 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.

This book tells the story of the Fulda. 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 Fulda, remember and share its dedicated address:

zakhor.ai/fulda

The address zakhor.ai/fulda 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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Fulda — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/fulda

Variants of the name (2)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

FuldFulda

Does your family write this name differently?

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 Fulda.

Search “Fulda” 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

Places along the journey

The days of this book

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

  • « Fulda », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007)
  • Germ Jud, 1 (1963), 113–4, 2 (1968), 267–8 (1968)
  • G. Kisch, Jews in Medieval Germany (1949)
  • Baron, Community, 1, 341–43
  • Bloch, Festschrift… Martin Philippson (1916)
  • Baron, Social², 9 (1967), 143f., 311f.; 10 (1967), 146f., 359; 13 (1969), 201f (1969)
  • Salfeld, Martyrol
  • L. Loewenstein, in: zhb, 19 (1917), 26–37 (1917)
  • A. Jestadt, Veroeffentlichungen des Fuldaer Geschichtsvereins (1950)
  • M. Stern, in: zgjd, 2 (1888), 194–9 (1888)
  • A. Schmidt, Fuehrer durch Fulda (1955)
  • fjw, 86, 200, 318
  • S.M. Auerbach, The Auerbach Family: The Descendants of Abraham Auerbach (1957)
  • P.N. Emeking, Das Hochstift Fulda unter seinem letzten Fuerstbischof (1935)
  • E. Keyser (ed.), Hessisches Staedtebuch (1957)
  • H.-J. Hoppe, Das juedische Fulda. Ein historischer Stadtspaziergang (1999)
  • K. Krolopp (ed.), Der juedische Friedhof in Fulda (1987)
  • M. Imhof, "Legalisierter Raub,", Fulda. Die Entrechtung und Ausraubung der Fuldaer Juden im Nationalsozialismus. Dokumentation (2004)
  • G. Renner, J. Schulz and R. Zibuschka (eds.), ", … werden in Kuerze anderweit untergebracht … (1992)
  • P. Horn and N.H. Sonn, The History of the Jews in Fulda. A Memorial Book (1971)

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