Skip to content
Zakhor
Memory🌳 Englishcontemporain· dès 1945 EC

The Schama Family

Write the Great Book

שאמה

Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Schama lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.

Lithuanian Jewish family emigrated to London. Sir Simon Schama, historian and essayist, professor at Columbia, author of The Story of the Jews (2013-2017), is one of the greatest living English-speaking Jewish historians.

Geographic origin: Londres, New York

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Schama 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.

01

Collection

Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.

02

Web research

Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).

03

Writing

Outline, chapters, bibliography — every page is sourced. Live streaming.

Get a single link: it signs you in if you already have an account, or creates one — no password. This finalises your proposal and lets you follow its review.

Lineage Map

New YorkNew YorkPlace of Origin — LondresLondres
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

This book tells the story of the Schama. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.

To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Schama, remember and share its dedicated address:

zakhor.ai/schama

The address zakhor.ai/schama leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.

🔗 Cite / link this page

Copy any of these formats to cite this page or link to it.

Link

https://zakhor.ai/schama

HTML

<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/schama">Schama — Zakhor</a>

Citation

Schama — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/schama

Variants of the name (5)

One name, a hundred faces.

The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.

Latin4

SchammaShamaChamaCHAM

עברית · Hebrew1

שאמה

Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    Simon Schama

    Historien, auteur de The Story of the Jews

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 Schama.

Search “Schama” on Yad Vashem

The 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 (1)

Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.

Notable figures of the lineage

Places along the journey

Communities crossed

Diaspora regions

Royaume-UniÉtats-Unis

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Schama give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Tags

#anglaise#histoire#columbia#lieu-geo-auto

Other lineages — English