Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Shapira Family
Write the Great Bookשפירא
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Shapira lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Rabbinic family of priestly descent. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (the Rebbe of Piaseczno) is the author of Esh Kodesh, written in the Warsaw ghetto.
Geographic origin: Europe de l'Est — Pologne
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A book yet to be written
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/shapira">Shapira — Zakhor</a>Citation
Shapira — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/shapiraVariants of the name (13)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin12
ChapiraChapiroSchapiraSchapiroShaperoShapira (Piaseczno)ShapiroSpiraSzapiraSzapiroSzpiroSKIRA
עברית · Hebrew1
שפירא
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Notable figures
- 1.
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
Rabbi hassidique, martyr
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 Shapira.
Search “Shapira” 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 (3)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
1790
Spira, Nathan Nata ben Shlomo (1585-1633). Seper mgaleh ʿamwqwt
Spira, Nathan Nata ben Shlomo (1585-1633). Auteur du texte
1790
Spira, Nathan Nata ben Shlomo (1585-1633). Seper mgaleh ʿamwqwt
Spira, Nathan Nata ben Shlomo (1585-1633). Auteur du texte
religieux
Kuntres Ha-Biurim
Moshe Shmuel Shapiro
Recueil de novellae talmudiques de Moshe Shmuel Shapiro.
Family tree
rootdescentmarriage
Cwi Elimelech Szapiro
1841–1924צבי אלימלך שפירא (בלאז'וב)
Elʻazar Shapira
1808–1865אלעזר שפירא
Shelomoh Shapira
1832–1893שלמה שפירא
Tsevi Hirsh Shapira
1850–1913צבי הירש שפירא
Yehoshuʻa Shapira
1862–1932יהושע שפירא (אדמו"ר)
Avraham Shapira
1910–2007אברהם אלקנה כהנא שפירא
Yaakov Elazar Kahana Shapira
1950יעקב אלעזר כהנא שפירא
Notable figures of the lineage
Nathan Nata Spira
נתן נטע שפירא1585–1633
Elijah Spira
אליהו שפירא1660–1712
Chaim Meir Jechiel Szapira
חיים מאיר יחיאל שפירא1789–1849
Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro
אברהם דובער כהנא שפירא1870–1943
Ben Zion Shapira
בן ציון שפירא1890–1972
Chaim Elazar Spira de Munkács (« Minchas Elazar »)
חיים אלעזר שפירא1868–1937
Constantin Abba Shapiro
קונסטנטין אבא שפירא1841-1900
Cwi Elimelech Szapiro
צבי אלימלך שפירא (בלאז'וב)1841–1924
Elʻazar Shapira
אלעזר שפירא1808–1865
Elimelech Shapira de Grodzisk
אלימלך שפירא1823/24–1892
Lamed Shapiro
ל. שאַפּיראָ1878-1948
Meir Yehudah Shapira
מאיר יהודה שפירא1846–1908
Refael Shapiro
רפאל שפירא1837–1921
Shelomoh Shapira
שלמה שפירא1832–1893
Tsevi Hirsh Shapira
צבי הירש שפירא1850–1913
Tzvi Herman Shapira
צבי הרמן שפירא1840–1898
Yehoshuʻa Shapira
יהושע שפירא (אדמו"ר)1862–1932
Yisroel Spira
ישראל שפירא (בלאז'וב)1889–1989
Zalman Sender Shapira
זלמן סנדר כהנא שפירא1851–1923
Avraham Shapira
אברהם אלקנה כהנא שפירא1910–2007
Haim-Moshe Shapira
חיים משה שפירא1902–1970
Moshe Shapira
משה שפירא1935–2017
Moshe Shmuel Shapiro
משה שמואל שפירא1917–2006
Samuel Shapiro
סמואל שפירו1907–1987
Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira
יעקב שמשון שפירא1902–1993
Yaakov Elazar Kahana Shapira
יעקב אלעזר כהנא שפירא1950
Yasha Shapira
יעקב שפירא1937–2021
Yosef Shapira
יוסף שפירא1926–2013
Diaspora regions
États-UnisFranceIsraëlLituaniePologneRussieUkraine
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Shapira 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
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