Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary

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Author(s)Heinrich W. Guggenheimer;Eva H. Guggenheimer
Description2 Volumes. .Jewish family names are chronicles written in code, as one historian put it. They reflect the history of the Jewish people, from the world of the Biblical patriarchs through the many countries and languages of the Diaspora, to the newly Hebraized setting of present-day Israel. Despite their antiquity, most names of Biblical origin can be fairly easily identified; however, names of later periods are more difficult to explain. Through historical research and linguistic analysis, these names can be deciphered. This dictionary, in English, is a most complete compilation, containing over 65,000 family names -from the :Ashkenazic, Sephardic, Oriental and modern Israeli groups. Current family names are included even when their origins cannot be established.
Publication Date1 June 1992
PublisherKTAV Publishing House
Pages882
ISBN 139780880000000
ISBN 10881252972
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