The Löwy Family

לֵוִי

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

Patronyme porté par plusieurs figures juives documentées (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande, Hongrie, Autriche). Cette fiche regroupe 4 figures du corpus partageant ce nom ; leurs liens généalogiques précis restent à documenter.

Geographic origin: Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande, Hongrie, Autriche

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Löwy 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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Löwy — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/lowy

Variants of the name (4)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

עברית · Hebrew1

לֵוִי

Кириллица · Cyrillic3

ЛёвиЛьовіЛеві

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Notable figures

1.
Albert Löwy
Moravian Hebrew scholar (1816-1908)
2.
Meshulim Feish Lowy
Grand Rebbe of the Tosh hasidic dynasty
3.
Emanuel Löwy
archéologue autrichien
4.
Ferenc Lőwy
rabbin hongrois

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 Löwy.

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Works & texts (1)

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

scientifique

Griechische Inschrifttexte

Emanuel Löwy

Recueil de textes d'inscriptions grecques établi par l'archéologue Emanuel Löwy.

Notable figures of the lineage

Albert Löwy

1816–1908

Emanuel Löwy

עמנואל לוי

1857–1938

Ferenc Lőwy

פרנץ לוי

1869–1944

Löwy, Adolf

Löwy, Jacob Ezekiel

Meshulim Feish Lowy

משולם פייש לאווי (השני)

1921–2015

Diaspora regions

Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'IrlandeHongrieAutriche

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Löwy give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

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