The Greenspan Family

גרינספן

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

Patronyme porté par une figure juive documentée du corpus : Nachman Shlomo Greenspan.

Geographic origin: Allemagne

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Greenspan 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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Variants of the name (11)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

Latin5

GreenspoonGreenspunGrunspanGrünspanGrynspan

עברית · Hebrew3

גרינספןגרינשפּאַןגרינשפון

العربية · Arabic2

جرينسبانجرينسبون

Кириллица · Cyrillic1

Гринспен

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Notable figures

1.
Nachman Shlomo Greenspan
rabbi

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 Greenspan.

Search “Greenspan” 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.

Found in Translation: Essays on Jewish Biblical Translation in Honor of Leonard J. Greenspoon (recueil en son honneur, reflet de son champ)

en l'honneur de Leonard Greenspoon (éd. Barker, Le Donne, Lohr)

Livre de en l'honneur de Leonard Greenspoon (éd. Barker, Le Donne, Lohr).

Notable figures of the lineage

Nachman Shlomo Greenspan

נחמן שלמה גרינשפאן

1878–1961

Leonard J. Greenspoon

1945–2025

The days of this book

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

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Recorded burials

Greenspan Alex

Carré juif du cimetière West Park (Johannesburg) · Johannesburg

Greenspan Isabella

Carré juif du cimetière West Park (Johannesburg) · Johannesburg

Greenspan Marion

Carré juif du cimetière West Park (Johannesburg) · Johannesburg

Greenspan Mary

Carré juif du cimetière West Park (Johannesburg) · Johannesburg

Greenspan Shannon

Carré juif du cimetière West Park (Johannesburg) · Johannesburg

Greenspan Solomon Malcolm

Carré juif du cimetière West Park (Johannesburg) · Johannesburg

GREENSPAN AARON