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| popular jewish surnames list: A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames Lars Menk, 2005 This dictionary identifies more than 13,000 German-Jewish surnames from the area that was pre-World War I Germany. From Baden-Wuerttemburg in the south to Schleswig-Holstein in the north. From Westfalen in the west to East Prussia in the east. In addition to providing the etymology and variants of each name, it identifies where in the region the name appeared, identifying the town and time period. More than 300 sources were used to compile the book. A chapter provides the Jewish population in many towns in the 19th century. |
| popular jewish surnames list: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire Alexander Beider, 1993 For each name, the author describes the precise geographic distribution within the Russian Empire at the start of the 20th century. The meaning of every name is explained. Spelling variants are given. |
| popular jewish surnames list: Jewish Family Names and Their Origins Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer, Eva H. Guggenheimer, 1992 |
| popular jewish surnames list: Sephardic Genealogy Jeffrey S. Malka, 2009 |
| popular jewish surnames list: Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania Alexander Avram, 2021-09-23 Linguistic and semantic features in names—and surnames in particular—reveal evidence of historical phenomena, such as migrations, occupational structure, and acculturation. In this book, Alexander Avram assembles and analyzes a corpus of more than 28,000 surnames, including phonetic and graphic variants, used by Jews in Romanian-speaking lands from the sixteenth century until 1944, the end of World War II in Romania. Mining published and unpublished sources, including Holocaust-period material in the Yad Vashem Archives and the Pages of Testimony collection, Avram makes the case that through a careful analysis of the surnames used by Jews in the Old Kingdom of Romania, we can better understand and corroborate different sociohistorical trends and even help resolve disputed historical and historiographical issues. Using onomastic methodology to substantiate and complement historical research, Avram examines the historical development of these surnames, their geographic patterns, and the ways in which they reflect Romanian Jews’ interactions with their surroundings. The resulting surnames dictionary brings to light a lesser-known chapter of Jewish onomastics. It documents and preserves local naming patterns and specific surnames, many of which disappeared in the Holocaust along with their bearers. Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania is the third volume in a series that includes Pleasant Are Their Names: Jewish Names in the Sephardi Diaspora and The Names of Yemenite Jewry: A Social and Cultural History, both of which are available from Penn State University Press. This installment will be especially welcomed by scholars working in Holocaust studies. |
| popular jewish surnames list: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland Alexander Beider, 1996 |
| popular jewish surnames list: Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present Benjamin Hary, Sarah Bunin Benor, 2018-11-05 This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today. |
| popular jewish surnames list: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Mediterranean Region Alexander Beider, 2017-02-01 |
| popular jewish surnames list: נצור לשונך מרע Zelig Pliskin, 1975 |
| popular jewish surnames list: When Scotland Was Jewish Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman, Donald N. Yates, 2013-03-15 The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names. |
| popular jewish surnames list: A Rosenberg by Any Other Name Kirsten Fermaglich, 2016-02-02 A groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century, showcasing just how much is in a name. Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names for them. But as Kirsten Fermaglich elegantly reveals, the real story is much more profound. Scratching below the surface, she examines previously unexplored name change petitions to upend the clichés, revealing that in twentieth-century New York City, Jewish name changing was actually a broad-based and voluntary behavior: thousands of ordinary Jewish men, women, and children legally changed their names in order to respond to an upsurge of antisemitism. Rather than trying to escape their heritage or “pass” as non-Jewish, most name-changers remained active members of the Jewish community. While name changing allowed Jewish families to avoid antisemitism and achieve white middle-class status, the practice also created pain within families and became a stigmatized, forgotten aspect of American Jewish culture. This first history of name changing in the United States offers a previously unexplored window into American Jewish life throughout the twentieth century. A Rosenberg by Any Other Name demonstrates how historical debates about immigration, antisemitism and race, class mobility, gender and family, the boundaries of the Jewish community, and the power of government are reshaped when name changing becomes part of the conversation. Mining court documents, oral histories, archival records, and contemporary literature, Fermaglich argues convincingly that name changing had a lasting impact on American Jewish culture. Ordinary Jews were forced to consider changing their names as they saw their friends, family, classmates, co-workers, and neighbors do so. Jewish communal leaders and civil rights activists needed to consider name changers as part of the Jewish community, making name changing a pivotal part of early civil rights legislation. And Jewish artists created critical portraits of name changers that lasted for decades in American Jewish culture. This book ends with the disturbing realization that the prosperity Jews found by changing their names is not as accessible for the Chinese, Latino, and Muslim immigrants who wish to exercise that right today. Winner, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society |
| popular jewish surnames list: Dicionário Sefaradi de Sobrenomes Guilherme Faiguenboim, Paulo Valadares, Anna Rosa Campagnano, 2009 |
| popular jewish surnames list: The Origin of Jewish Family Names Nelly Weiss, 2002 Provides a comprehensive list of Jewish family names with explanations of their meaning and origin. The names are grouped according to the countries in which they first occurred. |
| popular jewish surnames list: Российская еврейская энциклопедия Герман Брановер, 1995 |
| popular jewish surnames list: The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl Sholem Aleichem, 1969 Letters between a husband and wife provide another magical glimpse into the world of Sholom Aleichem. |
| popular jewish surnames list: The Tsimbalist Sasha Margolis, 2016-02-16 At once a thrilling whodunnit, a maddening romance, and an invigorating plunge into history, The Tsimbalist is a tale of Jews and Russians, depicting their complicated friendships, their dangerous enmities, and their illicit loves, all seen through the eyes of Avrom, a barber, musician, all-around mensch, and born detective. The year is 1871. The inhabitants of Balativke live in delicate balance -until a young Russian aristocrat is found murdered near the home of Koppel, a poor Jew. With the police unable to unravel the mystery of the aristocrat's murder, and blame falling upon Koppel amid a rising tide of anti-Jewish feeling, a desperate Avrom attempts to prevent disaster for his community by searching out the truth himself. Learning as much about the people he lives among as he does about the slain Arkady Olegovich, Avrom finds that few are who they seem. But could one of his neighbors really be a murderer? |
| popular jewish surnames list: Where Once We Walked Gary Mokotoff, Sallyann Amdur Sack, Alexander Sharon, 2002 Gazetteer providing information about more than 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust. |
| popular jewish surnames list: Angels at the Table Yvette Alt Miller, 2011-04-28 Authoritative and personal, this is an introduction to all aspects of a traditional Jewish Shabbat, providing both an inspirational call to observe this weekly holiday and a comprehensive resource. |
| popular jewish surnames list: Jewish Given Names and Family Names Robert Singerman, 2001 Presents over 3,000 bibliographic entries on the history and lore of Jewish family names and given names in all parts of the world from Biblical times to the present day. This work replaces the compiler's out-of-print JEWISH AND HEBREW ONOMASTICS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (1977) |
| popular jewish surnames list: To the End of the Earth Stanley M. Hordes, 2005 Drawing on individual biographies (including those of colonial officials accused of secretly practicing Judaism), family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a detailed account of the economic, social, and religious lives of crypto-Jews during the colonial period and after the annexation of New Mexico by the United States in 1846--Jacket. |
| popular jewish surnames list: Jewish Personal Names Shmuel Gorr, 1992 This book shows the roots of more than 1,200 Jewish personal names. It shows all Yiddish/Hebrew variants of a root name with English transliteration. Hebrew variants show the exact spelling including vowels. Footnotes explain how these variants were derived. An index of all variants allows you to easily locate the name in the body of book. Also presented are family names originating from personal names.--Publisher description. |
| popular jewish surnames list: Letter from Birmingham Jail MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., Martin Luther King, 2018 This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love. |
| popular jewish surnames list: The Sephardic Onomasticon Baruh B. Pinto, 2004 |
| popular jewish surnames list: Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories David S. Zubatsky, Irwin M. Berent, 1996 |
| popular jewish surnames list: Finding Our Fathers Dan Rottenberg, 1986 In this work Dan Rottenberg shows how to successfully trace your Jewish family back for generations by probing the memories of living relatives; by examining marriage licenses, gravestones, ship passenger lists, naturalization records, birth and death certificates, and other public documents; and by looking for clues in family traditions and customs. |
| popular jewish surnames list: A History of the Jews in England Albert Montefiore Hyamson, 1908 |
| popular jewish surnames list: The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln Gluckel, 1987-12-27 Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rare account of an ordinary woman, enlightens not just her children, for whom she wrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to us with determination and humor from the seventeenth century. She tells of war, plague, pirates, soldiers, the hysteria of the false messiah Sabbtai Zevi, murder, bankruptcy, wedding feasts, births, deaths, in fact, of all the human events that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact way of the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northern Germany lived. Accepting this situation as given, she boldly and fearlessly promotes her business, her family and her faith. This memoir is a document in the history of women and of life in the seventeenth century. |
| popular jewish surnames list: Legacy Harry Ostrer, 2012-05-17 Who are the Jews-- a race, a people, a religious group? Osterer offers readers an entirely fresh perspective on the Jewish people and their history, with a cutting-edge portrait of population genetics, a field which may soon take its place as a pillar of group identity alongside shared spirituality, shared social values, and a shared cultural legacy. |
| popular jewish surnames list: Russian-Jewish Given Names Boris Feldblyum, 1998 Based on a book published in Russia in 1911, this work presents to the English-speaking reader a comprehensive collection of Jewish given names used in Russia at the turn of the 20th century--more than 6,000 names in all. These names are also included in a dictionary of root names which shows its etymology as well as all variants of the names identifying them as kinnui (everyday names), variants or distortions. The introductory portion of the book is a historical essay that reviews the evolution of Jewish given names from biblical times through the late 19th century in Russia.--Publisher description. |
| popular jewish surnames list: First American Jewish Families , 1991 |
| popular jewish surnames list: Hamadrikh Avner Benner, Rabby Hyman E. Goldin, 2018-08-23 A manual to assist rabbis in their execution of ritual and ceremony by Rabbi Hyman E. Goldin (1881-1972). |
| popular jewish surnames list: The Jewish Year Book , 1896 |
| popular jewish surnames list: Jewish Life in the Middle Ages Israel Abrahams, 1896 |
| popular jewish surnames list: Book of Jewish and Crypto-Jewish Surnames Judith K. Jarvis, Susan L. Levin, Donald N. Yates, 2018-05-10 From unlikely places like Scotland and the Appalachian Mountains to the Bible and archives of the Spanish Inquisition, this valuable resource published in 2018 is the first to cover the naming practices of Conversos, Marranos and secret Jews along with more familiar Central and Eastern European Jewries. It includes Joseph Jacobs’ classic work on Jewish Names, a chapter on Scottish clans and septs, thousands of Sephardic and Ashkenazic surnames from early colonial records and Rabbi Malcolm Stern’s 445 Early American Jewish Families. Appendix A contains 400 surnames from the Greater London cemetery Adath Yisroel. Appendix B provides a combined name index to the indispensable When Scotland Was Jewish, Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America and The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales, all by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates. It contains 276 pages and has an extensive index and bibliography. “Up-to-date and valuable research tool for genealogists and those interested in Jewish origins.” —Eran Elhaik, Assistant Professor, The University of Sheffield |
| popular jewish surnames list: Gorbals Boy at Oxford Ralph Glasser, 2001 |
| popular jewish surnames list: The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World Seymour B. Liebman, 1975 Los inquisidores y los judíos en el Nuevo Mundo (Nueva España, Nueva Granada, el Perú, Río de la Plata); resúmenes de los procesos, 1500-1810, y guía bibliográfica. |
| popular jewish surnames list: The Jewish Encyclopedia Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, 1901 |
| popular jewish surnames list: The Farías Chronicles George Farías, 1995 José Antonio Farías appears in Coahuila, Mexico in 1777. He married Catarina Rodríguez. Their son, JoséAndrés Farías, born in Coahuila in 1780, came to Laredo, Texas ca. 1798. He married Guadalupe Sanchez in 1803. Includes early history of family in Portugal. Also includes family of Juan Martinez Guajardo who was born in Mexico City or Quéretaro, ca. 1580. He married Ursula Navarro Rodríguez. Descendants lived in Mexico, Texas, and elsewhere. |
| popular jewish surnames list: Humanist Readings in Jewish Folklore Bennett Muraskin, 2001 |
| popular jewish surnames list: Let Justice Well Up Like Water Bennett Muraskin, 2004 |
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