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Memory🌳 Yemenitemoderne / contemporain· 1870 EC — 1956 EC

The Gluska Family

Write the Great Book

גלוסקא

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

Leading family of the Sana'a community. Yosef Shalom Gluska, president of the committee of the Jews of Sana'a, accompanied Operation "Magic Carpet" which transported the Yemenite community to Israel in 1949-50.

Geographic origin: Sana'a

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Gluska 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.

Lineage Map

JérusalemJérusalemPlace of Origin — SanaaSanaa
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

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

zakhor.ai/gluska

The address zakhor.ai/gluska leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.

🔗 Cite / link this page

Copy any of these formats to cite this page or link to it.

Link

https://zakhor.ai/gluska

HTML

<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/gluska">Gluska — Zakhor</a>

Citation

Gluska — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/gluska

Variants of the name (2)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

Latin1

Geluska

עברית · Hebrew1

גלוסקא

Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    Yosef Shalom Gluska

    Chef de la communauté de Sana'a

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 Gluska.

Search “Gluska” 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

Works & texts (1)

Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.

Notable figures of the lineage

Diaspora regions

YémenIsraël

The days of this book

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

Tags

#yemenite#sanaa#tapis-volant

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