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★ The heart of the Great Books

7,391 Jewish lineages(1,117)

Cohen, Abulafia, Toledano… For each family, its name variants across languages and diasporas, its origins and its notable figures.

Every Jewish family name is a condensed memory: an origin, spellings that shift from one language and one exile to another, the figures who bore it. The Great Books of families gather this living fabric — more than five thousand lineages, their orthographic variants across the diasporas, their regions of origin and their stories. Find your own, explore its branches, and help write the Great Book that will hand down its history.

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Atlas of Origins

Where do families come from? Each home gathers the lineages that originate from it — hover for the count, click to open the place.

Rome — 1,021 lineagesRomeVarsovie — 354 lineagesVarsovieAllemagne (Rhénanie) — 345 lineagesAllemagne (Rhénanie)New York — 304 lineagesNew YorkJérusalem — 270 lineagesJérusalemAlger — 150 lineagesAlgerFès — 116 lineagesFèsBudapest — 114 lineagesBudapestParis — 113 lineagesParisRussie — 89 lineagesRussieVienne — 84 lineagesVienneTanger — 83 lineagesTangerGalicie (Lemberg) — 77 lineagesGalicie (Lemberg)Istanbul — 73 lineagesIstanbulFès — 72 lineagesMinsk — 71 lineagesLondres — 66 lineagesVilna — 62 lineagesKyiv — 60 lineagesBagdad — 60 lineagesTunis — 50 lineagesMarrakech — 49 lineagesSanaa — 44 lineagesConstantine — 41 lineagesEspagne — 37 lineagesBucarest — 34 lineagesPrague — 34 lineagesAlep — 34 lineagesIspahan — 31 lineagesOran — 30 lineagesSalonique — 28 lineagesTripoli — 28 lineagesLe Caire — 26 lineagesMaghreb — 25 lineagesLisbonne — 21 lineagesJudée — 21 lineagesTétouan — 20 lineagesBerlin — 18 lineagesLivourne — 14 lineagesSofia — 14 lineagesSamarie — 13 lineagesBuenos Aires — 13 lineagesMontréal — 13 lineagesSão Paulo — 13 lineagesAlsace — 12 lineagesSalé — 12 lineagesEurope de l'Est — 11 lineagesAmsterdam — 11 lineagesLorraine — 10 lineagesBruxelles — 9 lineagesMelbourne — 9 lineagesAsmara — 9 lineagesMeknès — 9 lineagesRhénanie — 8 lineagesVenise — 7 lineagesDamas — 7 lineagesBoukhara — 7 lineagesTbilissi — 7 lineagesMantoue — 7 lineagesBukovine — 7 lineagesComtat Venaissin — 7 lineagesGenève — 7 lineagesHambourg — 6 lineagesTurin — 6 lineagesBreslau — 6 lineagesBordeaux — 6 lineagesCordoue — 6 lineagesSafed — 6 lineagesOdessa — 6 lineagesBessarabie — 5 lineagesSéville — 5 lineagesFerrare — 5 lineagesAlexandrie — 5 lineagesCracovie — 5 lineagesGalilée — 5 lineagesSaragosse — 5 lineagesSarajevo — 4 lineagesKurdistan — 4 lineagesHabban — 4 lineagesRhodes — 4 lineagesSinaï — 4 lineagesCaucase — 4 lineagesFlorence — 4 lineagesLodz — 4 lineagesAden — 4 lineagesJohannesburg — 4 lineagesKashan — 4 lineagesRiga — 4 lineagesManchester — 4 lineagesTransjordanie — 4 lineagesStockholm — 3 lineagesHanovre — 3 lineagesBrest-Litovsk — 3 lineagesMoravie — 3 lineagesKonkan — 3 lineagesBeit-Lehem — 3 lineagesAsie centrale — 3 lineagesTel-Aviv — 3 lineagesBarcelone — 3 lineagesSlonim — 3 lineagesBombay — 3 lineagesPadoue — 3 lineagesAndrinople — 3 lineagesBnei Brak — 3 lineagesTolède — 3 lineagesMexico — 3 lineagesIzmir — 3 lineagesNarbonne — 3 lineagesDjerba — 3 lineagesAncône — 3 lineagesCologne — 3 lineagesCochin — 3 lineagesCassel — 2 lineagesBeyrouth — 2 lineagesBobowa — 2 lineagesPrusse — 2 lineagesMunich — 2 lineagesAnvers — 2 lineagesChicago — 2 lineagesVolozhine — 2 lineagesYazd — 2 lineagesPise — 2 lineagesMannheim — 2 lineagesAram — 2 lineagesGrenade — 2 lineagesBabylone — 2 lineagesEurope — 2 lineagesDublin — 2 lineagesCopenhague — 2 lineagesRissani — 2 lineagesSaint-Pétersbourg — 2 lineagesZagreb — 2 lineagesMulhouse — 2 lineagesTafilalet — 2 lineagesTroyes — 1 lineageGibraltar — 1 lineagePhénicie — 1 lineageTlemcen — 1 lineageLos Angeles — 1 lineageKönigsberg — 1 lineageLusace — 1 lineageBonn — 1 lineageWashington — 1 lineageLublin — 1 lineagePhiladelphie — 1 lineageChampagne — 1 lineageGóra Kalwaria — 1 lineageNovardok — 1 lineageLyon — 1 lineagePlaine côtière — 1 lineageCrimée — 1 lineageOslo — 1 lineageOur — 1 lineageHébron — 1 lineageWurtzbourg — 1 lineageLoubavitch — 1 lineageRamat Gan — 1 lineageNaples — 1 lineageNowy Sącz — 1 lineageMédelsheim — 1 lineage
Homelands reconstructed from documented lineages.