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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.
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;
Permanent family surnames exist today but only gained popularity among Sephardic Jews in Iberia and elsewhere as early as the 10th or 11th century and did not spread widely to the Ashkenazic Jews of Germany or Eastern Europe until the 18th and 19th centuries, where the adoption of German surnames was imposed in exchange for Jewish emancipation ...
Ashkenazi surnames (2 C, 54 P) H. ... Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,477 total.
A few years before the Holocaust, the Jewish population of the Soviet Union (excluding Western Ukraine and the Baltic states that were not part of the Soviet Union then) stood at over 5 million, most of whom were Ashkenazic as opposed to Sephardic, with some Karaite minorities. It is estimated that more than half died directly as a result of ...
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 .
See also Hassan (surname). Khazan is a Russian, Ukrainian, and Ashkenazi Jewish surname, and is a variant of the Hebrew 'Hazzan' and means cantor. When spelled Khazan, the name has typically been transliterated from Cyrillic characters (Хазан), suggesting people of Russian-Jewish descent.
Altschuler, Altshuler, Altschuller (Russian: Альтшуллер), Altshuller (Russian: Альтшуллер), Altschueler, Altshueler, or Alschuler is a Jewish surname of Ashkenazi origin. It is derived from the Altschul, Old Synagogue in Prague .