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Permanent family surnames exist today but only gained popularity among Sephardic Jews in Iberia and elsewhere as early as the 10th or 11th century and did not spread widely to the Ashkenazic Jews of Germany or Eastern Europe until the 18th and 19th centuries, where the adoption of German surnames was imposed in exchange for Jewish emancipation ...
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 .
The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards.
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Katz is a common German Ashkenazi Jewish surname.. Germans with the last name Katz may originate in the Rhine River region of Germany, where the Katz Castle is located. (The name of the castle does not derive from Katze, "cat", but from Katzenelnbogen, going back to Latin Cattimelibocus, consisting of the ancient Germanic tribal names of the Chatti and Melibokus.)
Meyer is an originally German, Dutch and Jewish surname. ... it is a common German surname. [1] Its original meaning in Middle High German is from mei(g)er, "manager ...
In German, it means "clover" and is possibly a toponymic surname like Feldman. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to researchers at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People , the name Klee originates from the Greek Kalonymos ( Hebrew : קלונימוס ), a translation of the Hebrew "shem tov" ( שם טוב ) meaning "good name".
Pages in category "German-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,580 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .