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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 ...
Arab-Jewish surnames (10 P) Ashkenazi surnames (2 C, 54 P) H. Hebrew-language surnames (3 C, 241 P) J. Jewish matronymic surnames (35 P) Jewish toponymic surnames ...
Russian-Jewish surnames (23 P) Y. Yiddish-language surnames (540 P) Pages in category "Ashkenazi surnames" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
See also Category:Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin. Pages in category "Surnames of Sephardic origin" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total.
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.
Common given names, however, remain similar in many parts of the Jewish community, with many of them based on figures in the Hebrew Bible or honoring relatives. [1] These are distinguished from the Hebrew name, which retained the original formulation of Jewish names.
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;
Poster in the Yishuv offering assistance to Palestinian Jews in choosing a Hebrew name for themselves, 2 December 1926. The Hebraization of surnames (also Hebraicization; [1] [2] Hebrew: עברות Ivrut) is the act of amending one's Jewish surname so that it originates from the Hebrew language, which was natively spoken by Jews and Samaritans until it died out of everyday use by around 200 CE.