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Memory🌳 Mizrahicontemporain· dès 1890 EC

The Sutton Family

Write the Great Book

סוטן

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

Sephardic-Aleppan family transplanted to Brooklyn in the early 20th century. Rabbi David Sutton is a spiritual leader of the Syrian community of New York and author of Taam la-Melekh.

Geographic origin: Alep, Brooklyn

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Sutton 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.

Lineage Map

Buenos AiresBuenos AiresNew YorkNew YorkDamasDamasPlace of Origin — AlepAlep
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

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

zakhor.ai/sutton

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

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

Citation

Sutton — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/sutton

Variants of the name (6)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

Latin5

SettonSettounSittonSoutounSoutton

עברית · Hebrew1

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Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    David Sutton

    Rabbin syrien de Brooklyn

  • 2.

    Menashe Setton

    Rabbin syrien-argentin

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 Sutton.

Search “Sutton” 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 (2)

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

Notable figures of the lineage

Places along the journey

Communities crossed

Diaspora regions

ArgentineÉtats-UnisSyrie

The days of this book

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

#alep#brooklyn#buenos-aires#mizrahi#lieu-geo-auto

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