{"id":9160,"date":"2026-03-20T11:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amhazikaron.org\/?p=9160"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:36:42","slug":"perpetual-jewish-family-traits-a-key-to-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amhazikaron.org\/en\/perpetual-jewish-family-traits-a-key-to-continuity\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetual Jewish family traits: A key to continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9160\" class=\"elementor elementor-9160 elementor-9023\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0733b6c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0733b6c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd96f52 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cd96f52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>\u00a0<\/h4><center>A system of interconnected families making one united family<\/center><center>ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN |\u00a0 Photo: ITZHAK FOUXON<\/center>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42500ce e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"42500ce\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f55cb2 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"3f55cb2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/amhazikaron.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/article_JerPost-1.pdf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Download as PDF<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-065b685 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"065b685\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6b8ab4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c6b8ab4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aec7a39 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"aec7a39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-05bcf7f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"05bcf7f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bdcbaa1 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bdcbaa1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Is it a coincidence that Jews named Wertheim, Wertheimer, and Werthein built unrelated business empires on four continents?<\/p><p>Not at all, according to research by Tel Aviv-based Am haZikaron Institute for Science, Culture and Heritage of the Jewish People, founded in 1998 to explore Jewish continuity as a scientific phenomenon.<\/p><p>Using an exact-sciences approach endorsed by a committee of 55 Nobel laureates, Am haZikaron (People of Memory) researchers can accomplish not only what popular genealogy services can, such as reconstructing family history, locating lost relatives, and creating visually attractive family trees. They can also reveal the unique characteristics of one\u2019s clan that have been preserved for centuries.<\/p><p>\u201cIf the Jewish people across generations represent a cohesive and continuous entity, then this continuity must rest on the long-term transmission of identifiable human traits,\u201d the institute explains on its website.<\/p><p>\u201cOur research applies advanced statistics, pattern recognition, and trait persistence analysis \u2013 resulting in published findings that suggest certain inherited characteristics can endure within family lines for as long as 950 years.\u201d<\/p><p>Itzhak Fouxon, a professor of physics and Am haZikaron\u2019s scientific adviser and researcher, spoke to the Magazine about the institute\u2019s extraordinary discoveries at the intersection of science, identity, and heritage.<\/p><p>The Wertheims, Wertheimers, and Wertheins are one example. Fouxon explained that DNA studies prove that these variations of the name derive from a handful of distant clans with common roots dating back 450 years.<\/p><p>\u201cYou see the same story in these clans: A person born to a family of modest means makes decisions that lead to building a financial empire out of nothing.\u201d<\/p><p>In modern times, these empires include Stef Wertheimer\u2019s Iscar Industries; Moshe Wertheim\u2019s Central Bottling Company (Coca-Cola Israel); Alain and Gerard Wertheimer\u2019s Chanel enterprise in France; American optometrist-inventor Herbert Wertheim\u2019s investment and philanthropic network; and the Argentina- based Werthein family\u2019s global agribusiness.<\/p><p>\u201cThere are genetic predispositions to certain types of talents. Jewish families tend to keep the same family profile over the centuries,\u201d Fouxon said. This profile encompasses capabilities and characteristics affecting anything from choice of profession to migration patterns, marital patterns, habits, and hobbies. \u201cEven when they don\u2019t know they belong to the same meta-clan, they have the same inclinations.\u201d<\/p><p>One might think that as each generation marries and has children, family traits become diluted over time. But the genealogy researcher said the institute\u2019s findings indicate that choice of mate isn\u2019t entirely random, either. With obvious exceptions, \u201cIf you have similar genes, you\u2019re more likely to form a couple; and as a consequence, after a few generations the traits are still there.\u201d<\/p><h4><strong>What is unique about Jews<\/strong><\/h4><p>\u201cI founded the institute because memories can disappear like sand between our fingers \u2013 and if there are no memories, we cannot be,\u201d said Am haZikaron founder Jonathan Vidgop, a prize-winning theater director, author, and screenwriter who made aliyah from Leningrad in 1989.<\/p><p>His own family tree winds across four walls of a room in Am haZikaron\u2019s Tel Aviv office and includes 1,600 individuals thus far.<\/p><p>\u201cAbout 20 years ago, I started with 35 family members and gradually collected more. I am continuing to discover relatives,\u201d he said.<\/p><p>Since many American and Latin American Jews descend from Russian- speaking ancestors, it\u2019s a priority to make the institute accessible to English speakers and, in the future, Spanish speakers.<\/p><p>\u201cI am convinced that Jews are one united family, regardless of our countries of origin,\u201d Vidgop said.<\/p><p>Fouxon leads comparative statistical studies of family trees, results of which have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The institute\u2019s findings on regularities across generations of distant relatives are echoed in the writings of economic historians such as Gregory Clark, author of The Son Also Rises.<\/p><p>Fouxon noted that 11 of Vidgop\u2019s relatives became directors and 13 became writers, completely independently of one another.<\/p><p>\u201cA person from a given family will have talents in a wide spectrum of activities, but it is limited,\u201d he said. \u201cOut of an infinity of possibilities, a slight limitation can help you reach your potential, to help you determine where you are most needed in society. It\u2019s not about genetic predetermination because we have freedom of choice. We have the freedom to develop our innate talents.\u201d<\/p><p>Jews have always been \u201ca collection of interconnected families, a people with an inbuilt structure. In biblical times, that structure was tribal, and each tribe was considered predestined for different things. Within tribes were batim, houses \u2013 families with particular capabilities,\u201d Fouxon said.<\/p><p>\u201cThis is an essential idea for how the Jews survived. We are a scattered people with different cultures and languages, yet we truly depend on each other and survive as one connected system, where the parts depend on the whole and the whole depends on the parts,\u201d he said.<\/p><p>\u201cIt is our core mission to understand this \u2013 to understand what is unique about the Jewish people via what is unique about the families who comprise the Jewish people.\u201d<\/p><p>Prof. James Heckman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 and member of the institute\u2019s Endorsement Committee, expressed the project\u2019s significance this way: \u201cThe heredity of the individual weaves into the history of the collective. From the dust of forgetfulness, the Am haZikaron project creates a meaningful narrative.\u201d<\/p><h4><strong>My Jewish Roots<\/strong><\/h4><p>One of Am haZikaron\u2019s objectives is to develop national consciousness and reconnect modern Jews with the heritage and history of the Jewish clans from which they descend.<\/p><p>A variety of privately and grant-funded projects help accomplish this goal.<\/p><p>Over the past decades, about 60,000 young Jews visiting Israel through programs such as Birthright, Naale Elite Academy, and Masa, as well as new immigrants in municipalities such as Afula, Rehovot, Ashkelon, Ra\u2019anana, and Kiryat Gat, have delved into family history in Am haZikaron\u2019s My Jewish Roots workshops.<\/p><p>In the first half of the two-hour workshop, professional actors guide participants in dramatizing pivotal scenes from Jewish history. The second half features a talk with a family history expert. Everyone receives a pre-prepared printed certificate of his or her family origin based on a genealogical study of his or her last name.<\/p><p>Nelly Rosenberg, a Russian-speaking researcher and workshop facilitator for Am haZikaron, said the sessions \u201calways touch something very personal in people.\u201d That includes herself. She recently met someone at a My Jewish Roots workshop from her own family line, which traces its roots back to the Alter Rebbe, the founder of Chabad. The newfound relative was excited and surprised to learn that many of their mutual cousins had been living in Israel since 1948.<\/p><p>\u201cThese discoveries make people rethink their connections,\u201d said Rosenberg.<\/p><p>Marina, a member of a new immigrants group in Bat Yam that participated in My Jewish Roots, said the experience led her to realize that \u201ceach of us is a cog in the great machine called clan, family, and surname. And all these mechanisms together form a cog in the machine \u2013 the Jewish people. And how important this tiny cog is to the life and functioning of this machine!\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cA huge thank you to all the institute staff for their work, their passion, and their determination, for investing in the preservation and prosper i &#8211; ty of our p e o p l e , and for sharing your knowledge with every cog,\u201d she wrote to the organization.<\/p><p>Fouxon said the institute started with Russian-speaking Jews \u201cbecause they often come to Israel with no connection to Jewishness besides knowing that a grandparent was Jewish. They need to understand how they count, how they belong. Knowing about one\u2019s roots can make life more meaningful. They can see that their existence is not random.\u201d<\/p><p>Some workshop participants prove to be descendants of King David \u2013 who was, Vidgop noted, the great-grandson of the convert Ruth. Jews by choice are an essential part of the system, he said.<\/p><p>\u201cConverts who enter the Jewish people do not enter randomly; there are no coincidences here. The convert does not dilute the discoveries of family regularity at all, because the convert becomes a part of the family.\u201d<\/p><h4><strong>From the dust of forgetfulness<\/strong><\/h4><p>The institute\u2019s current projects include collecting testimonies from Diaspora Jews about how they experienced and reacted to the events of Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p><p>\u201cThe only parallel seems to be a similar project for September 11, yet what we went through was much stronger,\u201d said Fouxon, pointing out that many Jews\u2019 worldview was changed by Oct. 7, with some being moved to make aliyah or join the IDF.<\/p><p>Another project involves translating the institute\u2019s Russian-language history of the pogroms during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921, which claimed 300,000 Jewish lives. Many of those victims were relatives of the two million Jews who fled the Russian Empire in that time period and started families in North America or Palestine (see link below).<\/p><p>In addition, the institute\u2019s foundational research volume, Ethnos of Millennia, was recently translated from Russian into English for future publication. Containing the centuries-long history of 63 Jewish clans, this work earned Vidgop awards for his contributions to furthering an awareness about Jewish heritage.<\/p><p>Fouxon emphasized that the Am haZikaron Institute also promotes aliyah and family reunification by securing documents for repatriation and helping individuals locate relatives.<\/p><p>\u201cWe call on English-speaking Jews to write to us so we can reunite those who want it with their Russian-speaking family,\u201d the genealogy expert said. \u201cThe last time this connection was strong was the moment American Jews fought to make the USSR let the Jewish people go. I hope these times of unity may return.\u201d<\/p><hr style=\"margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" \/><p>The page on Lviv regarding the Russian pogroms can be seen in English at:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pogrom. amhazikaron.org\/en\/mestechki\/lviv\/.\">pogrom. amhazikaron.org\/en\/mestechki\/lviv\/.<\/a><\/p><p>For more information, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/amhazikaron.org\/en\/\">amhazikaron.org\/en\/<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem Post Magazine about the scientific work of the Am haZikaron Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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