Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
🌳 GermanPatronymic
The Jacob Family
Write the Great Bookג'ייקוב
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Jacob lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Patronyme porté par plusieurs figures juives documentées (États-Unis, Allemagne). Cette fiche regroupe 2 figures du corpus partageant ce nom ; leurs liens généalogiques précis restent à documenter.
Geographic origin: États-Unis, Allemagne
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Jacob 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 Jacob. 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 Jacob, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/jacobThe address zakhor.ai/jacob 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/jacobHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/jacob">Jacob — Zakhor</a>Citation
Jacob — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/jacobVariants of the name (9)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
JacoboJakobJACOBY
עברית · Hebrew3
ג'ייקובז'אקוביעקב
العربية · Arabic1
جاكوب
Кириллица · Cyrillic2
ИаковДжейкоб
Does your family write this name differently?
Notable figures
- 1.
Walter Jacob
rabbin américain
- 2.
Benno Jacob
rabbin allemand
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 Jacob.
Search “Jacob” 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
JACOB , appelé aussi Israel
Datation incertaine : entre le XXe siècle av. J.-C. et le XVIIIe siècle av. J.-C. (hypothèse) — d'après Jacob patriarche, prédynastique, antérieur à Moïse et à l'Exode.
Rabbah B. Naḥman B. Jacob
Éliezer B. Jacob
Ephraim B. Jacob
Manoah B. Jacob
Ẓebi Hirsch ben Isaac Jacob
Jacob, Israël
Benno Jacob
בנו יעקב1862–1945
Jacob, Julius
Walter Jacob
1930–2024
Diaspora regions
États-UnisAllemagne
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Jacob 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
Recorded burials
Jacob -arbitrated match
Cimetière juif de Metzervisse · Metzervisse
Jacob -arbitrated match
Cimetière Israëlite de Hellimer · Hellimer
Jacob -arbitrated match
Cimetière juif de Benfeld · Benfeld
Jacob -arbitrated match
Cimetière juif de Metzervisse · Metzervisse
Jacob -arbitrated match
Ancien cimetière israélite de Metz · Metz
Jacob [Rosenberger]arbitrated match
Cimetière juif d'Altendorf · Altendorf
Jacob Abrahamarbitrated match
Cimetière juif de Metzervisse · Metzervisse
Jacob Abrahamarbitrated match
Cimetière Israëlite de Hellimer · Hellimer
Jacob Abrahamarbitrated match
Cimetière Israëlite de Hellimer · Hellimer
Jacob Abrahamarbitrated match
Cimetière Israëlite de Hellimer · Hellimer
Jacob Abrahamarbitrated match
Cimetière Israëlite de Hellimer · Hellimer
Jacob Abrahamarbitrated match
Cimetière Israëlite de Hellimer · Hellimer
Bibliography
Tags
#auto-figure-lignee