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Pages in category "Hebrew-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 241 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,479 total. 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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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 ...
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Download QR code ; Print/export ... Pages in category "Arab-Jewish surnames" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect ...
See also Category:Surnames of Sephardic origin Pages in category "Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.