Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Hoffman Family
Write the Great Bookהופמן
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Hoffman lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Hoffman is a surname of German and Ashkenazi Jewish origin, an anglicization of the German Hoffmann. It is an occupational name designating the owner or manager of a piece of land.
Geographic origin: Verbó → Berlin
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Hoffman 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
Lineage Map
This book tells the story of the Hoffman. 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 Hoffman, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/hoffmanThe address zakhor.ai/hoffman 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/hoffmanHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/hoffman">Hoffman — Zakhor</a>Citation
Hoffman — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/hoffmanVariants of the name (3)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin2
HoffmannHofman
עברית · Hebrew1
הופמן
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Notable figures
- 1.
David Zvi Hoffmann
Melamed Leho'il · 1843-1921
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 Hoffman.
Search “Hoffman” 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
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Hoffman 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
Bibliography
- Hoffman — Wiktionary (anglais) ↗
- A. Beider ; L. Menk, Dictionnaires des patronymes juifs d'Europe de l'Est (Beider : Empire russe 2008, Royaume de Pologne 1996, Galicie 2004) et judéo-allemands (Menk 2005), Avotaynu
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