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The Lazarus Family

Write the Great Book

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

Poet, verses on the Statue of Liberty.

Geographic origin: New York

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Lazarus 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

Place of Origin — New YorkNew York
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

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

zakhor.ai/lazarus

The address zakhor.ai/lazarus 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

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Link

https://zakhor.ai/lazarus

HTML

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

Citation

Lazarus — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/lazarus

Variants of the name (2)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

العربية · Arabic1

لازاروس

Кириллица · Cyrillic1

Лазарус

Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    Emma Lazarus

    poète · 1849-1887

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 Lazarus.

Search “Lazarus” 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

Places along the journey

Communities crossed

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Lazarus 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

#États-Unis#poésie#lieu-geo-auto

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