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Russian-Jewish surnames (23 P) Y. Yiddish-language surnames (539 P) Pages in category "Ashkenazi surnames" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
Ashkenazi surnames (2 C, 53 P) H. ... Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,474 total.
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 .
As Ashkenazi Jews moved away from Europe, mostly in the form of aliyah to Israel, or immigration to North America, and other English-speaking areas such as South Africa; and Europe (particularly France) and Latin America, the geographic isolation that gave rise to Ashkenazim have given way to mixing with other cultures, and with non-Ashkenazi ...
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 ...
Lipschitz, Lipshitz, or Lipchitz, is an Ashkenazi Jewish (Yiddish/German-Jewish) surname. The surname has many variants, including: Lifshitz , Lifshits, ...
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 ...
Category: Ashkenazi Jews. ... Ashkenazi surnames (2 C, 49 P) Asian Ashkenazi Jews (3 C, 1 P) D. Descendants of the Baal Shem Tov (31 P) E. European Ashkenazi Jews (32 ...