Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Hamra Family
Write the Great Bookחמרה
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Hamra lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Damascene rabbinical family, the last great lineage of the Syrian Jewish community. Yosef Hamra was the last active chief rabbi of Damascus before the near-extinction of the community in 1992.
Geographic origin: Damas
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Hamra 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
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In the meantime
Lineage Map
This book tells the story of the Hamra. 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 Hamra, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/hamraThe address zakhor.ai/hamra 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/hamraHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/hamra">Hamra — Zakhor</a>Citation
Hamra — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/hamraVariants of the name (2)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin1
Hamrah
עברית · Hebrew1
חמרה
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Notable figures
- 1.
Yosef Hamra
Dernier grand rabbin de Damas
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 Hamra.
Search “Hamra” 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
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
SyrieÉtats-UnisIsraël
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Hamra give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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