Zakhor is not a closed library: it is a living workshop, continually nourished by those who pass on. Each name recovered, each place documented, each memory entrusted enriches a shared heritage — that of an entire people and of each of its families.
Whether you carry a family history, are a researcher, an archivist, or are simply devoted to this memory, there is a way to contribute on your own scale. No technical skill is required: only the desire not to let things fade away.
One lineage, one coordinator. Zakhor's 5,200 published lineages each await a steward: someone who gathers the family memory, checks the sources and watches over their lineage's Great Book.
With ten active members, here is how we would divide the work among ourselves. Each of these roles is a checkbox in the form below: select the one (or ones) that speak to you.
Steward of one specific lineage: gathers the family memory, collects and checks the sources, talks with the descendants and keeps their lineage's Great Book accurate.
Apply for this role →Guardian of the quality standard: review queue, memory/history and epistemic registers, prioritisation of projects.
Auditing the generated and seeded Great Books: real sources, hunting down approximations, solid bibliography.
The pillar of lineages: validation, merging of duplicates, new lineages from members, trees and relationships.
Transcription, cataloguing, links between texts, authors and places (Friedberg, National Library of Israel / Ktiv).
Curation of the tens of thousands of items today merely linked: annotating and attaching key documents to subjects.
Gathering accounts, photographs and family memories — the living register of memory.
The remaining languages towards the objective of twenty, and the Jewish languages: Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish.
WhatsApp groups, newsletter, recruitment, events and hilloulot: bringing the community to life.
The platform and the generation pipeline, data quality, the integrity of the catalogue.
These roles serve a three-phase roadmap, from the foundation of trust to shared authority.
Every age carries its own memory. We're looking for one voice per generation — pick yours and put yourself forward.
This project is a collective work. Historians, genealogists, translators, developers, witnesses of family memory — every skill is precious in transmitting the memory of the Jewish People and its lineages.
The memory of the Jewish People is written by many hands. Yours has its place here.
