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Memory🌳 Mizrahi

The Shemtob Family

Write the Great Book

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

Shemtob, a form of the Hebrew name Shem Tov (Hebrew: שם טוב, « good name/reputation »), is a first name, surname or epithet borne by many Jews in its original or Hellenized form (Greek: Καλονυμος, Kalonymos). This Hellenized form became over time Kalonymus, Kalman, Kalmann and related spellings.

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Shemtob 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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Collection

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

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Web research

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

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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.

This book tells the story of the Shemtob. 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 Shemtob, remember and share its dedicated address:

zakhor.ai/shemtob

The address zakhor.ai/shemtob 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

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Link

https://zakhor.ai/shemtob

HTML

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

Citation

Shemtob — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/shemtob

Variants of the name (4)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

ChemtobShem TovSCHEMTOBSHEMTOV

Does your family write this name differently?

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 Shemtob.

Search “Shemtob” 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

Notable figures of the lineage

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Shemtob 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

Bibliography

Other lineages — Mizrahi