21 янв. 2022 г. · tldr: Ashkenazi Jewish surnames are often German(ic), because they lived in a German speaking area when the wanted or needed one, or Yiddish as ...

7 апр. 2022 г. · I know a few Russian Jews and they all have German surnames (e.g. "Stein", "Rosen", etc). Same with most the American Jews I know.

27 мар. 2024 г. · There are a few Germanic surnames which are exclusively Jewish. One that comes to mind is Schächter which derives from a Hebrew word for 'ritual ...

3 янв. 2014 г. · Meier/Meyer ("dairy farmer"): One of the most common German names also became a common Jewish name because of it's closeness to Meir. · Rubin (" ...

13 окт. 2022 г. · There are no surnames. When Jews were forced to adopt German surnames (I was told) the cheapest suffixes to register were burg, baum and stein.

5 сент. 2023 г. · Many Jewish last names are German if they're Ashkenazi. My last name is German for black. My first name is also German. So yeah, people assume I'm super German.

27 июн. 2024 г. · One of my teachers had tried to explain to me why plenty of Jews have German surnames such as Goldberg, Goldstein, Greenberg, Rosenberg, etc.

5 авг. 2021 г. · In fact German-speaking Jews tended to adopt surnames that were orthographically very similar to those of ethnic Germans. Many Jews immigrating ...

28 дек. 2022 г. · Because Jews didn't need last names and didn't do it until required by law. Then some common ones were chosen because they sounded pretty.

20 дек. 2021 г. · From first names: Abraham-Abramson, Abramovitch, Abramsky, Abrahams, or how about Jacob-Jacobson, Jacubowitz, Jacobovsky, Jacoby, and many ...