Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Ashkenazi
The Tessler Family
Write the Great Bookטסלר
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Tessler lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Tessler is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname meaning « carpenter ». Among its bearers are notably Nir Tessler and Ya'akov Tessler.
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Tessler 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.
Web research
Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).
Writing
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In the meantime
This book tells the story of the Tessler. 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 Tessler, remember and share its dedicated address:
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Link
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/tessler">Tessler — Zakhor</a>Citation
Tessler — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/tesslerVariants of the name (1)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
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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 Tessler.
Search “Tessler” 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 (1)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
Notable figures of the lineage
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Tessler 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
Recorded burials
TESSLER ABE
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — June 6, 1929
TESSLER ABRAHAM
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — April 26, 1953
TESSLER ANNIE
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — March 22, 1918
TESSLER ARTHUR
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — January 13, 2003
TESSLER BERNARD
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — November 21, 1955
TESSLER BERTHA
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — April 25, 1938
TESSLER BERTHA
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — November 21, 1969
TESSLER BETH
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — September 15, 1956
TESSLER EDITH
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — September 22, 1965
TESSLER HARRY
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — December 5, 1974
TESSLER HARRY
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — January 30, 1939
TESSLER HELEN
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — December 31, 1938
Bibliography
- Tessler — Wikipédia ↗
- 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