Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Weiss Family
Write the Great Bookוויסס
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Weiss lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Means "white." Very frequent in Hungary. Rabbi Isaac Hirsch Weiss (1815-1905), historian of the Talmud.
Geographic origin: Hongrie / Galicie
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Weiss 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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Lineage Map
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/weissHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/weiss">Weiss — Zakhor</a>Citation
Weiss — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/weissVariants of the name (7)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin6
VajsVajssVaysWajsWeisWeisz
עברית · Hebrew1
וויסס
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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 Weiss.
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Works & texts (1)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
Notable figures of the lineage
Joseph Hirsch Weiss
יוסף הירש וייס1800–1881
Abraham Weiss
אברהם ווייס1896–1970
Asher Anshel Weiss
אשר אנשיל וייס1882–1944
Guido Weiss
1822–1899
Isaac Hirsch Weiss
אייזיק הירש וייס1815–1905
Joseph Meir Weiss
יוסף מאיר וייס1838–1909
Miksa Weisz
מיקשה וייס1872–1931
Frans Weisz
1938–2025
Me'ir Weiss
מאיר וייס1908–1998
Shevah Weiss
שבח וייס1935–2023
Theodore S. Weiss
1927–1992
Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss
יצחק טוביה וייס1926–2022
Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss
יצחק יעקב וייס1902–1989
Diaspora regions
HongrieGalicieÉtats-UnisIsraël
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Weiss give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- 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