Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Rahabi Family
Write the Great Bookרהבי
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Rahabi lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Great Jewish family of Cochin. David Rahabi, merchant and diplomat, was consul of the Netherlands and a chronicler; Ezekiel Rahabi, his descendant, led the spice trade with the VOC.
Geographic origin: Cochin (Kerala)
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Rahabi 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/rahabiHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/rahabi">Rahabi — Zakhor</a>Citation
Rahabi — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/rahabiVariants of the name (2)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin1
Rahby
עברית · Hebrew1
רהבי
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Notable figures
- 1.
David Rahabi
Marchand-consul néerlandais à Cochin
- 2.
Ezekiel Rahabi
Dirigeant juif de Cochin
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 Rahabi.
Search “Rahabi” 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 (2)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
vers 1750
Traduction hébraïque polémique de l'Évangile (Évangile de Matthieu) — « The Book of the Gospel Belonging to the Followers of Jesus »
Ezekiel Rahabi (II)
Manuscrit (traduction/polémique) de Ezekiel Rahabi (II). (vers 1750)
1768
Lettre de 1768 à Tobias Boas (source historique sur les juifs de Cochin)
Ezekiel Rahabi (II)
Lettre / document historique de Ezekiel Rahabi (II). (1768)
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
Inde
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Rahabi give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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#mizrahi#cochin#kerala#voc#lieu-geo-auto