Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Michael (Irak) Family
Write the Great Bookמיכאל
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Michael (Irak) lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Baghdadi Jewish family that emigrated to Israel. Sami Michael (1926-2024), born Kamal Menashe Salah, novelist and president of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, carried the Jewish-Arab memory of Baghdad through novels such as Victoria and A Trumpet in the Wadi.
Geographic origin: Bagdad, Haïfa
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Michael (Irak) 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
Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).
Writing
Outline, chapters, bibliography — every page is sourced. Live streaming.
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In the meantime
Lineage Map
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Michael (Irak) — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/michael-iraqVariants of the name (13)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin2
MichaelMikhael
עברית · Hebrew1
מיכאל
العربية · Arabic5
مايكلمایکلمشائيلميخائيلميشائيل
Кириллица · Cyrillic2
МихаелМихаэль
Ελληνικά · Greek3
ΜάικλΜίχαελΜιχαήλ
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Notable figures
- 1.
Heimann Joseph Michael
bibliographe allemand
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 Michael (Irak).
Search “Michael (Irak)” 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 (3)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
HambourgIrakIsraël
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Michael (Irak) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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