Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Israeli
The Hasdai Family
Write the Great Bookחסדאי
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Hasdai lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Modern Hebrew surname; language of origin of the name: Hebrew (according to Wikidata).
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Hasdai 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
Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).
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.
In the meantime
This book tells the story of the Hasdai. 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 Hasdai, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/hasdaiThe address zakhor.ai/hasdai 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/hasdaiHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/hasdai">Hasdai — Zakhor</a>Citation
Hasdai — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/hasdaiVariants of the name (2)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin1
HASDAY
עברית · Hebrew1
חסדאי
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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 Hasdai.
Search “Hasdai” 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
Works & texts (4)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
XIIIᵉ s.
Mozene Tzedek (Balances de la justice) — d'après al-Ghazali (Mizan al-'Amal)
Abraham ibn Hasdai
Traduction (éthique) de Abraham ibn Hasdai. (XIIIᵉ s.)
XIIIᵉ s.
Sefer ha-Yesodot (Livre des éléments) — d'après Isaac Israeli (Kitab al-Istiqat)
Abraham ibn Hasdai
Traduction (philosophie/science) de Abraham ibn Hasdai. (XIIIᵉ s.)
XIIIᵉ s.
Sefer ha-Tappuah (Le Livre de la pomme) — d'après le pseudo-Aristote
Abraham ibn Hasdai
Traduction (philosophie) de Abraham ibn Hasdai. (XIIIᵉ s.)
1ère moitié du XIIIᵉ s. (éd. Constantinople 1518)
Ben ha-Melekh ve-ha-Nazir (Le Prince et le Nazir / l'Ermite)
Abraham ibn Hasdai
Traduction/adaptation hébraïque (du Barlaam et Josaphat, via l'arabe) de Abraham ibn Hasdai. (1ère moitié du XIIIᵉ s. (éd. Constantinople 1518))
Notable figures of the lineage
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Hasdai give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- Q138348740 — Wikidata ↗
- A. Stahl ; M. H. Eshel ; A. Ariel, Origins of Jewish Names (Stahl, 2005) ; Family Names in Israel (Eshel, 1967) ; The Book of Names — 200 Most Popular Surnames in Israel (Ariel, 1997)