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Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Nachman de Bratslav Family
Write the Great Bookנחמן מברסלב
(Nachman of Breslov)
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Nachman de Bratslav lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Breslov Hasidism. Author of the Likoutei Moharan and of the famous Tales. His tomb in Uman draws tens of thousands of pilgrims each Rosh Hashana.
Geographic origin: Bratslav / Ouman (Ukraine)
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
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Nachman de Bratslav — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/nachman-bratslavVariants of the name (3)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin2
NahmanRabbi Nachman
עברית · Hebrew1
נחמן מברסלב
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Notable figures
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Nachman
Fondateur du hassidisme Breslov
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 Nachman de Bratslav.
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Works & texts (2)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
vol. I : Ostrog 1808 ; vol. II : Moghilev 1811 ; vol. III : Ostrog 1815
Likoutei Moharan
Nachman de Bratslav
Livre (enseignements hassidiques) de Nachman de Bratslav. (vol. I : Ostrog 1808 ; vol. II : Moghilev 1811 ; vol. III : Ostrog 1815)
1816 (posthume)
Sippourei Ma'asiyot (Les Contes de Rabbi Nachman)
Nachman de Bratslav
Livre (contes / récits mystiques) de Nachman de Bratslav. (1816 (posthume))
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
The days of this book
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