Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Nasi Family
Write the Great Bookנשיא
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Nasi lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Portuguese Marrano lineage that became an Ottoman power. Joseph Nasi (1524-1579), Duke of Naxos, was adviser to Sultans Suleiman the Magnificent and Selim II.
Geographic origin: Portugal → Anvers → Constantinople
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Nasi 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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Lineage Map
Journey Through Time1579
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/nasiHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/nasi">Nasi — Zakhor</a>Citation
Nasi — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/nasiVariants of the name (4)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
BenvenisteMendesNassi
עברית · Hebrew1
נשיא
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Notable figures
- 1.
Doña Gracia Mendes
Protectrice des Juifs, financière, diplomate
- 2.
Joseph Nasi
Duc de Naxos, conseiller ottoman
- 3.
Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi
Matriarche et protectrice des marranes
- 4.
Joseph Nasi
Duc de Naxos, conseiller du sultan
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 Nasi.
Search “Nasi” 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
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Juifs de Constantinople (Istanbul)
יהודי קושטאvia Constantinople (Istanbul)
Juifs de Ferrare
via Ferrare
Juifs de Tibériade (Vieux Yishouv)
via Tibériade
Juifs de Venise (Scuola Canton)
via Venise
Juifs de Venise (Scuola Italiana)
via Venise
Juifs de Venise (Scuola Tedesca)
via Venise
Les Juifs d'Anvers
יהודי אנטוורפןvia Anvers
Diaspora regions
BelgiqueEmpire ottomanItaliePays-BasPortugalTurquie
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Nasi give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- « Nasi », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
- R. de Vaux, Anc Isr, 8
- Alon, Me?karim, 2 (1958), 15–57 (1958)
- H. Mantel, Studies in the History of the Sanhedrin (1967)
- S. Zeitlin, Religious and Secular Leadership (1943)
- Baron, Social², 2 (1952), 191–209; 5 (1957), 38–46, 314 (1957)
- S. Pozna?ski, Babylonische Geonim im nachgaonaeischen Zeitalter (1914)
- S. Abramsky, Bar Kokhva, Nesi Yisrael (1961)
- Mann, Egypt, index
- E.A. Speiser, Oriental and Biblical Studies (1967)
- Ashtor. Korot
Tags
#Constantinople#diplomatie#marrane#marranes#ottoman#ottomane#sefarade#lieu-geo-auto