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🌳 AshkenaziXIXe s.
The Harkavy Family
Write the Great Bookהרכבי
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Harkavy lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Surname derived from a Slavic nickname ("garkavy", one who guttaralizes), borne by orientalist Abraham Harkavy and lexicographer Alexander Harkavy.
Geographic origin: Biélorussie (Novogroudok)
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/harkavy">Harkavy — Zakhor</a>Citation
Harkavy — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/harkavyVariants of the name (4)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
HarkaviGarkavyGarkavi
עברית · Hebrew1
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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 Harkavy.
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Works & texts (3)
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Vilna, 1867
Ha-Yehudim u-Sefat ha-Slavim (Les Juifs et la langue des Slaves)
Abraham Elijah Harkavy
Étude historique de Abraham Elijah Harkavy. (Vilna, 1867)
Saint-Pétersbourg, 1879–1882
Zikkaron la-Rishonim we-gam la-Aḥaronim (Studien und Mittheilungen aus der St. Petersburg Kaiserlichen Bibliothek), 5 vol.
Abraham Elijah Harkavy
Édition de sources / études sur manuscrits de Abraham Elijah Harkavy. (Saint-Pétersbourg, 1879–1882)
New York, 1925 (augmenté 1928)
Yidish-English-Hebreyisher Verterbukh (Dictionnaire yiddish-anglais-hébreu)
Alexander Harkavy
Dictionnaire de Alexander Harkavy. (New York, 1925 (augmenté 1928))
Notable figures of the lineage
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