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The Rejwan Family
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Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Rejwan lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Baghdadi Jewish family. Nissim Rejwan (1924-2017), journalist and essayist, published The Last Jews in Baghdad (2004), a first-hand account of the Jewish community of Iraq on the eve of its exile.
Geographic origin: Bagdad, Jérusalem
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A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Rejwan 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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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/rejwan">Rejwan — Zakhor</a>Citation
Rejwan — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/rejwanVariants of the name (2)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin1
Rejouane
עברית · Hebrew1
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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 Rejwan.
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Works & texts (3)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
1998 (National Jewish Book Award)
Israel's Place in the Middle East: A Pluralist Perspective
Nissim Rejwan
Essai de Nissim Rejwan. (1998 (National Jewish Book Award))
2004 (University of Texas Press)
The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland
Nissim Rejwan
Mémoires / essai historique de Nissim Rejwan. (2004 (University of Texas Press))
The Jews of Iraq: 3000 Years of History and Culture
Nissim Rejwan
Essai historique de Nissim Rejwan.
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