Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Oppenheim Family
Write the Great Bookאופנהיים
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Oppenheim lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Rhenish Ashkenazi lineage. Rabbi David Oppenheim (1664-1736) was Chief Rabbi of Prague and famous bibliophile.
Geographic origin: Oppenheim, Rhénanie
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Oppenheim 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
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/oppenheimHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/oppenheim">Oppenheim — Zakhor</a>Citation
Oppenheim — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/oppenheimVariants of the name (6)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin5
OpenheimOpenheimerOpheimOppenhaimerOppenheimer
עברית · Hebrew1
אופנהיים
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Notable figures
- 1.
Rabbi David Oppenheim
Grand rabbin de Prague, bibliophile
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 Oppenheim.
Search “Oppenheim” 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
David Oppenheim
דוד אופנהיים1664–1736
Joseph Süss Oppenheimer
יוזף זיסקינד אופנהיימר1692–1738
Avrohom Chaim Oppenheim
אברהם חיים אופנהיים1796–1824
Salomon Oppenheim
סלומון אופנהיים1772–1828
Berthold Oppenheim
ברטהולד אופנהיים1867–1942
Joachim Oppenheim
חיים אופנהיים1832–1891
Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim
צבי יעקב אופנהיים1854–1926
Robert Oppenheimer
רוברט אופנהיימר1904–1967
Places along the journey
Diaspora regions
AllemagneAutricheÉtats-UnisRoyaume-Uni
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Oppenheim 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
- jewishencyclopedia.com ↗
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#ashkenaze#banque#bibliophilie#Prague#lieu-geo-auto