The Goodman Family

גודמן

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

Patronyme porté par une figure juive documentée du corpus : Harry Aharon Goodman.

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Goodman 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.

Collection

Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.

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Variants of the name (3)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

עברית · Hebrew1

גודמן

العربية · Arabic1

غودمان

Кириллица · Cyrillic1

Гудман

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Notable figures

1.
Harry Aharon Goodman

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 Goodman.

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Notable figures of the lineage

Goodman, Tobias

Harry Aharon Goodman

אהרן (הארי) גודמן

1898–1961

Carolyn Goodman

קרולין גודמן

1938

Éveline Goodman-Thau

אוולין גודמן-טאו

1934

Oscar Goodman

אוסקר גודמן

1939

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Goodman give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

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