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Memory🌳 Yemenitecontemporain· 1940 EC — 2000 EC

The Haza Family

Write the Great Book

חזא

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

Yemenite family that emigrated to Tel Aviv in the 1950s. Ofra Haza, singer and global ambassador of the Yemenite piyyut, became at the end of the twentieth century the musical icon of Mizrahi identity.

Geographic origin: Yémen, Israël

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Haza 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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Collection

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

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Web research

Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).

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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.

Lineage Map

JérusalemJérusalemPlace of Origin — SanaaSanaa
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

This book tells the story of the Haza. 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 Haza, remember and share its dedicated address:

zakhor.ai/haza

The address zakhor.ai/haza leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.

🔗 Cite / link this page

Copy any of these formats to cite this page or link to it.

Link

https://zakhor.ai/haza

HTML

<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/haza">Haza — Zakhor</a>

Citation

Haza — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/haza

Variants of the name (3)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

Latin2

HazzaKhaza

עברית · Hebrew1

חזא

Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    Ofra Haza

    Chanteuse, icône du piyyout yéménite

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 Haza.

Search “Haza” 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

Notable figures of the lineage

Diaspora regions

YémenIsraël

The days of this book

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

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Tags

#yemenite#piyyout#musique#tel-aviv

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