Jewish Family Names And Their Origins

Author : Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881252972
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Family Names and Their Origins written by Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eva H. Guggenheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602802841
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Family Names & Their Origins written by Eva H. Guggenheimer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present dictionary offers an inventory and etymological explanation of current family names for most Jewish groups: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, Oriental, and modern Israeli. Jewish family names are "chronicles written in code" as one historian put it, and reflect the history of the Jewish people from the world of Biblical Patriarchs to the present. This dictionary is the most complete compilation of its kind in English, and contains over 70,000 family names, from the common to the exotic for nearly every Jewish group. (from the introduction and p. [4] of cover).

Author : Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881259834
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Family Names and Their Origins written by Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nelly Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Jewish Family Names written by Nelly Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Benzion C. Kaganoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1568219539
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History written by Benzion C. Kaganoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference examines the history of Jewish forenames and surnames, tracing the origin of each name and the changes that have occured over generations.

Author : Judith K. Jarvis
Publisher : Panther`s Lodge Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1985856565
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Jewish and Crypto-Jewish Surnames written by Judith K. Jarvis and published by Panther`s Lodge Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Shmuel Gorr
Publisher : Avotaynu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Personal Names written by Shmuel Gorr and published by Avotaynu. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Alexander Beider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire written by Alexander Beider and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kirsten Fermaglich
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479872997
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rosenberg by Any Other Name written by Kirsten Fermaglich and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society 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, Fermaglich 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.

Author : Alexander Avram
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271091940
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania written by Alexander Avram and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.