The memory of the Jewish People is written by many hands. Yours has its place here.
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.
Become a lineage coordinator →Add a name, a place, a community, a document, or correct an existing entry. Each submission is reviewed by the editorial committee, which responds within 48 h.
Submit →Bring to life the Great Book of your family: a multi-secular narrative, structured and continually enriched, drawn from what you know or from a simple family tree.
Begin →A testimony, a photograph, a passed-down object, a story gathered from the elders: living memory has its full place alongside the archive.
Bear witness →Historians, genealogists, archivists, translators: join the circle of expert contributors who review, date, and enrich the corpus.
Become an expert →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.
