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American people of Swiss-Jewish descent (32 P) C. Swiss Conservative Jews (1 P) D. ... Pages in category "Swiss Jews" The following 25 pages are in this category, out ...
The Jewish population was fairly well tolerated, self-managed and maintained its own school. In 1862 the Jewish community of Zürich, the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ) was founded, and in 1884 the Synagoge Zürich was built at the Löwenstrasse road. [14] In 1879 a Jewish village of Neu-Endingen was built.
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 .
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 ...
Many Persian last names consisted of three parts in order to distinguish from other families with similar last names. Some Persian Jewish families that had similar surnames to their Muslim neighbors added a second surname at the end of their last names. As an example Jafar nezhad Levian (From the race of Japhet and from the Tribe of Levite ...
Gross or Groß in German is the correct spelling of the surname under German orthographic rules. In Switzerland, the name is spelled Gross. Some Germans and Austrians also use the spelling with "ss" instead of "ß". It is a surname of German, Prussian, and Yiddish (Ashkenazi Jewish) origin.
Meyer is an originally German, Dutch and Jewish surname. ... Hannes Meyer (1889–1954), Swiss architect and director of the Bauhaus; Hans Meyer (1858–1929), ...
Swiss-German surnames (102 P) F. Swiss families (25 C, 27 P) Franco-Provençal-language surnames (13 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Swiss origin"