Join the project
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.
Recruiting 7,390 lineage coordinators
Which lineage do you want to coordinate?
Type at least two letters, then pick your lineage from the list.
Your coordinator missions
Coordinating a lineage means becoming its volunteer steward: you gather its memory, watch over its Great Book and bring its community of descendants to life. Concretely, six missions await you.
- Watch over your lineage's Grand Livre and verify the sources
- Solicit contributions from your family: documents, photos, testimonies
- Gathering family memory: narratives, archival items, objects
- Animate social media with the material provided
- Recruit new members on zakhor.ai
- Support and review the contributions received
No expertise is required: an attachment to your lineage and a little time are enough. The collective provides the tools, the material and the support.
How to contribute
Submit a contribution
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 →Write your lineage
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 →Share a memory
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 →Lend your expertise
Historians, genealogists, archivists, translators: join the circle of expert contributors who review, date, and enrich the corpus.
Become an expert →Want to spread the word around you? Download the flyer to share with your community.
The roles of the collective
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.
Editorial coordination
Guardian of the quality standard: review queue, memory/history and epistemic registers, prioritisation of projects.
Research & verification (×2)
Auditing the generated and seeded Great Books: real sources, hunting down approximations, solid bibliography.
Genealogy
The pillar of lineages: validation, merging of duplicates, new lineages from members, trees and relationships.
Archival Items & texts
Transcription, cataloguing, links between texts, authors and places (Friedberg, National Library of Israel / Ktiv).
Documents & archives
Curation of the tens of thousands of items today merely linked: annotating and attaching key documents to subjects.
Testimonies & oral memory
Gathering accounts, photographs and family memories — the living register of memory.
Translation & Jewish languages
The remaining languages towards the objective of twenty, and the Jewish languages: Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish.
Outreach & diaspora
WhatsApp groups, newsletter, recruitment, events and hilloulot: bringing the community to life.
Tech & data
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.
Generation representatives
Every age carries its own memory. We're looking for one voice per generation — pick yours and put yourself forward.
Offer your help
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.