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Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,455 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin (7 P) Surnames of Sephardic origin (98 P) Pages in category "Hebrew-language surnames" ... This list may not reflect recent changes.
Some traditional surnames relate to Jewish history or roles within the religion, such as Cohen ("priest"), Levi, Shulman ("synagogue-man"), Sofer ("scribe"), or Kantor ("cantor"), while many others relate to a secular occupation or place names. The majority of Jewish surnames used today developed in the past three hundred years. [3] [4]
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Russian-Jewish surnames (22 P) Y. Yiddish-language surnames (531 P) Pages in category "Ashkenazi surnames" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
See also Category:Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin. Pages in category "Surnames of Sephardic origin" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of 98 total.
Pages in category "Russian-Jewish surnames" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aaronovich;
Apart from these original surnames, the surnames of Jewish people of the present have typically reflected family history and their ethnic group within the Jewish people. Sephardic communities began to take on surnames in the Middle Ages (specifically c.10th and 11th centuries), and these surnames reflect the languages spoken by the Sephardic ...