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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 ...
Unlike the Iranian community in Los Angeles, which contains a large number of non-Jewish Iranians, the Iranian population in and around Great Neck is almost entirely Jewish. Several thousand of the Great Neck area's 10,000 Iranian Jews trace their origins to the Iranian city of Mashhad , constituting the largest Mashhadi community in the United ...
Pages in category "Persian-language surnames" The following 179 pages are in this category, out of 179 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abedzadeh;
A Persian name, or an Iranian name, consists of a given name (Persian: نام Nâm), sometimes more than one, and a surname (نام خانوادگی). Given names [ edit ]
People of Iranian-Jewish descent (5 C, 2 P) I. Iranian Majlis Jews Representatives (1 C) Iranian-Jewish diaspora (3 C, 2 P) M. Medieval Iranian Jews (1 C, 7 P)
Ghaffari or Qaffari (Persian/Jewish: غفاری) is a surname, often associated with Iranian families from the Kashan region. [1] However the name is found all over Iran and elsewhere, as families historically Iran did not have last names until governmental policies instituted within the 20th century, hence the name can be found all over Iran, such as Mazandaran and Semnan.
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 ...
Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,471 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .