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Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Ashkenazi
The Sommer Family
Write the Great Bookזומר
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Sommer lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Sommer is a German, Jewish, Danish, and Norwegian surname derived from the common noun sommer ("summer"). As a German name, it may also come from Middle Low German somere ("beast of burden"), probably from the Latin sagma ("packsaddle"). As an English, Scottish, and German name, it also constitutes a variant of Summer.
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In the meantime
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/sommerHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/sommer">Sommer — Zakhor</a>Citation
Sommer — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/sommerVariants of the name (7)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin3
SomerSummerSOMMIR
עברית · Hebrew1
זומר
العربية · Arabic1
سومر
Кириллица · Cyrillic2
Со́ммерЗоммер
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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 Sommer.
Search “Sommer” 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.
1998
A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40–66
Benjamin D. Sommer
Livre de Benjamin D. Sommer. (1998)
2009
The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel
Benjamin D. Sommer
Livre de Benjamin D. Sommer. (2009)
2015
Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition (Yale University Press)
Benjamin D. Sommer
Livre de Benjamin D. Sommer. (2015)
Notable figures of the lineage
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Sommer give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- Sommer — Wiktionary (anglais) ↗
- 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