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Memory🌳 PriestlyLineage (priestly / levitical)Establishedcontemporain· 1886 EC — 1969 EC

The Kahaneman (Ponevezh) Family

Write the Great Book

כהנמן

Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Kahaneman (Ponevezh) lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.

Priestly dynasty. Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, "Ponevezher Rav," refounded in 1944 in Bnei Brak the Ponevezh yeshivah destroyed in the Shoah; it became the largest yeshivah of the Litvak world.

Geographic origin: Ponevezh, Bnei Brak

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Kahaneman (Ponevezh) 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

JérusalemJérusalemVilnaVilnaPlace of Origin — Bnei BrakBnei Brak
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

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Variants of the name (4)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

Latin3

KahanamenKahanemanKahanman

עברית · Hebrew1

כהנמן

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Notable figures

  • 1.

    Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman

    Refondateur de la yeshivah de Ponevezh

  • 2.

    Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman

    Rav de Ponevezh

  • 3.

    Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman

    rabbin israélien

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 Kahaneman (Ponevezh).

Search “Kahaneman (Ponevezh)” 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

Works & texts (1)

Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.

Notable figures of the lineage

Places along the journey

Diaspora regions

IsraëlLituanie

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Kahaneman (Ponevezh) 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

  • 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

Tags

#auto-figure-lignee#bnei-brak#lieu-geo-auto#lituanie#litvak#ponevezh#sacerdotale#shoah

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