The Thaler Family
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Thaler lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Toponymic surname (valley).
Geographic origin: Allemagne / Autriche
Memory register · custodian, not owner
Lineage Map
The Great Book — Thaler
Introduction
La lignée Thaler trouve sa figure la plus éclatante dans un homme né dans le New Jersey en 1945, lauréat du prix Nobel d'économie en 2017, dont les travaux ont bouleversé la façon dont le monde conçoit la décision humaine. C'est par lui que ce livre s'ouvre : non par le nom et son étymologie, mais par ce que la famille a accompli. L'histoire du patronyme — sa racine germanique, ses vallées de Bohême et de Bavière, ses décrets napoléoniens et habsbourgeois — viendra en son temps, éclairant le chemin parcouru depuis les shtetls d'Europe centrale jusqu'aux amphithéâtres de l'Université de Chicago.
Le présent ouvrage retrace ce parcours à plusieurs strates. Il suit d'abord l'homme et son œuvre, puis la communauté ashkénaze qui porta ce nom à travers la diaspora, puis le mot lui-même — la vallée, le Tal —, avant de revenir au sens que tout cela prend dans la longue mémoire d'Israël. Là où la documentation est solide, nous la citons ; là où l'incertitude demeure, nous l'assumons.
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The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
العربية · Arabic1
Кириллица · Cyrillic1
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Bibliography
- Andreas Reinke, Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland 1781-1933 (2007)
- Ruth Gay, The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait (1992)
- Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 (2002)
- Lisa Silverman, Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars (2012)
- Edward Fram, A Window on Their World: The Court Diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim, Frankfurt am Main, 1773-1794 (2012)
- Debra Kaplan, Beyond Expulsion: Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg (2011)
- 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
- The Thaler family of Galicia — Gesher Galicia, Gesher Galicia ↗
- JTA, Richard Thaler, who recognized the humanity in economics, wins Nobel Prize — Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) (2017) ↗
- Alexander Beider, Alexander Beider, A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia, Avotaynu, 2004, Avotaynu (2004)