Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Jacobs Family
Write the Great Bookג'ייקובס
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Jacobs lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Patronyme porté par plusieurs figures juives documentées (Royaume des Pays-Bas, Royaume-Uni). Cette fiche regroupe 2 figures du corpus partageant ce nom ; leurs liens généalogiques précis restent à documenter.
Geographic origin: Royaume des Pays-Bas, Royaume-Uni
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Jacobs 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
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In the meantime
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Jacobs — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/jacobsVariants of the name (7)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
JacobusJakobsJACOBY
עברית · Hebrew1
ג'ייקובס
العربية · Arabic1
جاكوبس
Кириллица · Cyrillic2
ДжейкобсДжекобс
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Notable figures
- 1.
Aletta Jacobs
médecin et féministe néerlandaise
- 2.
Louis Jacobs
British Jewish scholar (1920-2006)
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 Jacobs.
Search “Jacobs” 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 (1)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
Notable figures of the lineage
Diaspora regions
Royaume des Pays-BasRoyaume-Uni
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Jacobs 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
Jacobs Albert
Cimetière juif de Forbach · Forbach
Jacobs Babette
Cimetière juif de Sierck-les-Bains · Sierck-les-Bains
Jacobs Blanche
Cimetière juif de Sélestat · Sélestat
Jacobs Dievenkorn
Nouveau cimetière juif de Goch · Goch
Jacobs Edith Gisèle
Cimetière israélite de Strasbourg · Strasbourg
Jacobs Eugène
Cimetière juif de Forbach · Forbach
Jacobs Frau Hermann Zunsheim Josefine geb.
Nouveau cimetière juif de Duisbourg · Duisbourg
Jacobs Gerson
Cimetière juif de Dinslaken (auf Parkfriedhof) · Dinslaken
Jacobs Lina Rosenthal geb.
Cimetière juif de Dortmund (Brackel) · Dortmund
Jacobs Michel Corin
Cimetière juif d'Ottawa — Osgoode · Ottawa
Jacobs Moïse
Ancien cimetière israélite de Metz · Metz
Jacobs Rebecca Bilsky
Cimetière juif d'Ottawa — Bank Street · Ottawa
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