Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Ashkenazi
The Vainshtein Family
Write the Great Bookויינשטיין
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Vainshtein lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Ashkenazi surname; language of origin of the name: Yiddish (per Wikidata).
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Vainshtein 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
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Writing
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In the meantime
This book tells the story of the Vainshtein. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/vainshteinHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/vainshtein">Vainshtein — Zakhor</a>Citation
Vainshtein — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/vainshteinVariants of the name (9)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin5
VainshteynVaynshteynVanshteinṾinshṭainWainschtein
עברית · Hebrew1
ויינשטיין
Кириллица · Cyrillic3
ВайнштайнВайнштейнВейнштейн
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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 Vainshtein.
Search “Vainshtein” 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
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Vainshtein 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
VAINSHTEIN ZELDA
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — October 3, 2008
VAYNSHTEYN ESFIRsuggested match
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — April 12, 2024
VAYNSHTEYN ESFIRsuggested match
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — June 19, 2010
VAYNSHTEYN KHANAsuggested match
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — July 19, 1996
VAYNSHTEYN OVSEYsuggested match
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — January 25, 2003
VAYNSHTEYN RAISAsuggested match
Cimetière juif de Queens — Mount Hebron · Queens — July 27, 1993
Вайнштейн (Тубе) Марьямsuggested match
Mémorial de Rostov-sur-le-Don — Zmievskaia balka · Rostov-sur-le-Don — August 12, 1942
Вайнштейн А. Л.suggested match
Cimetière juif de Saint-Pétersbourg · Saint-Pétersbourg — 1981
Вайнштейн А. М.suggested match
Cimetière juif de Saint-Pétersbourg · Saint-Pétersbourg — 1950
Вайнштейн А. М.suggested match
Cimetière juif de Saint-Pétersbourg · Saint-Pétersbourg — 1945
Вайнштейн А. П.suggested match
Carré juif du cimetière Vostriakovskoe tsentralnoe — Moscou · Moscou — 1948
Вайнштейн А. П.suggested match
Cimetière juif de Moscou — Vostriakovskoe · Moscou — 1948
Bibliography
- Q21500700 — Wikidata ↗
- 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