Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Ashkenazi
The Wallach Family
Write the Great Bookוולך
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Wallach lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Ashkenazi surname designating a "Vlach" (speaker of a Romance language), via Middle Low German and East Slavic.
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Wallach 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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In the meantime
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/wallach">Wallach — Zakhor</a>Citation
Wallach — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/wallachVariants of the name (2)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
עברית · Hebrew1
וולך
Кириллица · Cyrillic1
Валлах
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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 Wallach.
Search “Wallach” 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.
Francfort-sur-le-Main, 1697
Sefer Meshalim (Livre des fables, dit aussi Ku-Bukh / Kuhbuch)
Moïse (Moshe) ben Eliezer Wallich
Livre de Moïse (Moshe) ben Eliezer Wallich. (Francfort-sur-le-Main, 1697)
1700
Sefer Refu'ot (traité de médecine)
Abraham ben Isaac Wallich
Livre (médecine) de Abraham ben Isaac Wallich. (1700)
début XVIIIᵉ s. (Allemagne)
Manuscrit de compositions diverses (illustrations du Mishkan, Chokhmat ha-Partzuf…) du médecin R. Yitzchak Isaac Wallach
Yitzchak Isaac Wallach
Manuscrit de Yitzchak Isaac Wallach. (début XVIIIᵉ s. (Allemagne))
Notable figures of the lineage
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Wallach give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Recorded burials
Wallach Adèlearbitrated match
Cimetière juif de Hégenheim · Hégenheim — October 4, 1870
Wallach Alfredarbitrated match
Cimetière israélite de Strasbourg · Strasbourg — August 7, 1990
Wallach Henriettearbitrated match
Cimetière juif de Hégenheim · Hégenheim — December 23, 1862
Wallach Jean Jacquesarbitrated match
Cimetière israélite de Pfastatt · Pfastatt — 1960
Wallach Jeannettearbitrated match
Cimetière israélite de Strasbourg · Strasbourg — August 25, 1984
Wallach Mélaniearbitrated match
Cimetière israélite de Pfastatt · Pfastatt — 1987
WALLACH Abrahamarbitrated match
Cimetière Israélite de Jungholtz · Jungholtz — October 20, 1878
WALLACH ABRAHAMarbitrated match
Cimetière Israélite de Mulhouse · Mulhouse — 1916
WALLACH ALEXANDREarbitrated match
Cimetière Israélite de Mulhouse · Mulhouse — January 25, 1909
WALLACH ANDREarbitrated match
Cimetière Israélite de Mulhouse · Mulhouse — 2005
WALLACH ANNYarbitrated match
Cimetière Israélite de Mulhouse · Mulhouse — October 2, 1997
WALLACH BEATRICEarbitrated match
Cimetière Israélite de Mulhouse · Mulhouse
Bibliography
- Wallach — 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