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Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Lehmann Family
Write the Great Bookלהמן
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Lehmann lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Parisian branch of the Lehmann family of Hamburg origin. Henri Lehmann (1814-1882), painter, pupil of Ingres, professor at the Beaux-Arts, author of the decoration of the grand staircase of the Palais du Luxembourg and of the galerie des Fêtes of the Hôtel de Ville (destroyed in 1871).
Geographic origin: Hambourg / Paris
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Lehmann lineage has not yet been written.
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/lehmann">Lehmann — Zakhor</a>Citation
Lehmann — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/lehmannVariants of the name (6)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin4
LehmanLehmann (Joseph)LEMANNLEHMANNI
עברית · Hebrew2
להמןליהמן
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Notable figures
- 1.
Henri Lehmann
Peintre
- 2.
Joseph Lehmann
Grand Rabbin de France, 1905
- 3.
Henry Lehman
fondateur Lehman Brothers · 1821-1855
- 4.
Herbert Lehman
gouverneur NY · 1878-1963
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 Lehmann.
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Works & texts (3)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
fin XIXe – début XXe s.
Articles dans la Revue des études juives (REJ)
Joseph Lehmann
Articles savants de Joseph Lehmann. (fin XIXe – début XXe s.)
1869
L'Homme et Dieu (sermon)
Joseph Lehmann
Sermon publié de Joseph Lehmann. (1869)
litteraire
Bustenai
Marcus Lehmann
Roman historique de Marcus Lehmann autour de la figure de l'exilarque Bustanaï.
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
AllemagneFranceFrance (Alsace)
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Lehmann give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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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
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#académie#alsacienne#finance#grand-rabbin#Ingres#lieu-geo-auto#peinture#politique#separation#strasbourg