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Pages in category "Ashkenazi surnames" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abramowicz; Abramsky;
Ashkenazi surnames (2 C, 53 P) H. Hebrew-language surnames (3 C, 243 P) J. Jewish matronymic surnames (35 P) Jewish toponymic surnames (117 P) K. Kohenitic surnames ...
Ashkenazi (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי) is a surname of Jewish origin. The term Ashkenaz ( Hebrew : אַשְׁכְּנַז ) refers to the area along the Rhine in Western Europe where diaspora Jews settled and formed communities during the Middle Ages .
Pages in category "Hebrew-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 243 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 "Russian-Jewish surnames" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aaronovich;
Pages in category "Surnames of Sephardic origin" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Katz is a common German and 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.)