WebJul 08, 2022 · Here are some of the most common Jewish family names and their meanings. Levin - A derivative of the German name Liebwin. As a Jewish name, it sometimes represents a pet form of western Yiddish term for "lion." Goldberg - Goldberg is a surname of German/Yiddish origin meaning "mountain of gold." Cohen - From the …

WebGoldschmidt: this Germanic name refers to an ancestor who worked as a goldsmith Green: adopting colors as surnames was popular among Austro-Hungarian Jews Greenberg: referring to the towns of Grunberg in Germany and Poland, both once home to Jewish communities Hakimi: this Persian surname is derived from the Arabic “ Hakim ” meaning …

Webmany jews adopted these professions as their surnames, such as abrishami (silk maker), almasi (diamond maker), boloorian (crystal maker), dehghan (wealthy farmer), fallah (farmer), zarrinkoob, javaherian, gohari (gold seller), noghrehforosh (silversmith), mesforosh (coppersmith), sarraf, sarrafan, sarraf nezhad, banki (money changer), zargar, …

WebObersovszky Hungarian. Ödön Hungarian. From the given name Ödön. Olah Hungarian. Oláh (Olah) is a Hungarian surname that means Vlach/Romanian. A similar word is Olasz, meaning "Italian".Hungarian (Oláh): ethnic name from Hungarian oláh ‘Romanian’, old form volách, from vlach ‘Italian’, ‘speaker of a Romance language’.

WebEzra עֶזְרָא Jewish From the given name Ezra. Feigenbaum German, Jewish Means "fig tree" in German. Feld German, Jewish Means "field" in German. The name was originally given to someone who lived on land cleared of forest. Fisher English, Jewish Cognate of Fischer. Freud German, Jewish Means "joy" in German, a nickname for a cheerful person.

WebNov 13, 2012 · INVENTED ‘FANCY SHMANCY’ NAMES When Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Empire were required to assume last names, some chose the nicest ones they could think of — and may have been charged a registration fee by the authorities. According to the YIVO Encyclopedia, “the resulting names often are associated with nature and …

WebDec 01, 2009 · The Hungarian Jews had no surnames and some acquired the Turkish nickname Madjar which means Hungarian. Madjar (the Turkish pronunciation of the Hungarian “magyar”) became a surname. In another case, they were called Budun, from the city of Buda.

Webthe names are pulled from various sources, including but not limited to: deportation lists drawn up by the hungarian royal gendarmerie in april 1944; personal cards of the hungarian ministry of defense dealing with jews drafted into labor battalions; lists used by other ministries and local administrations, such as those leading to the …

WebBy the 1930s, 300,000 Jews lived in Austria, most of them in Vienna. Following the Anschluss with Nazi Germany, most of the community emigrated or were killed in the Holocaust. The current Austrian Jewish population is 9,000. The following is a list of some prominent Austrian Jews. Here German-speaking Jews from the whole Habsburg …

WebThis was the first attempt to cover all the Jewish surnames of this community that numbered about 50,000 souls in 1939. Isaac Moskona compiled a list of 509 different surnames based on three sources dating from 1895 to 1967 and gave a meaning for less than half of them. ... In 1376 Hungarian Jews were expelled from their country and some …

WebMar 12, 2007 · The 1848 Hungarian Jewish Census (The Census) was known by its Latin name, " Conscriptio Judaerum. 1848 ". It is a survey of Jews in Hungary compiled after the failed Hungarian 1848 Revolution against Austria in the Spring of that year. Though most of it was completed in 1848, in some counties ( megye) it spilled over into 1849.

WebThe Austro-Hungarian Empire lasted until the end of WWI, when Czechoslovakia was formed from Bohemia, Moravia, Sloavkia, and parts of Silesia. In 1993, Czechoslovakia divided into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. [1] When searching for Slovak Jewish records, also search Hungarian Jewish records.