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Author: Benzion C. Kaganoff Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1568219539 Category : Names, Personal Languages : en Pages : 268
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This reference examines the history of Jewish forenames and surnames, tracing the origin of each name and the changes that have occured over generations.
Author: Benzion C. Kaganoff Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1568219539 Category : Names, Personal Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
This reference examines the history of Jewish forenames and surnames, tracing the origin of each name and the changes that have occured over generations.
Author: Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN: 9780881252972 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 932
Author: Nelly Weiss Publisher: ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 222
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Provides a comprehensive list of Jewish family names with explanations of their meaning and origin. The names are grouped according to the countries in which they first occurred.
Author: Alexander Avram Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271091940 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 270
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Linguistic and semantic features in names—and surnames in particular—reveal evidence of historical phenomena, such as migrations, occupational structure, and acculturation. In this book, Alexander Avram assembles and analyzes a corpus of more than 28,000 surnames, including phonetic and graphic variants, used by Jews in Romanian-speaking lands from the sixteenth century until 1944, the end of World War II in Romania. Mining published and unpublished sources, including Holocaust-period material in the Yad Vashem Archives and the Pages of Testimony collection, Avram makes the case that through a careful analysis of the surnames used by Jews in the Old Kingdom of Romania, we can better understand and corroborate different sociohistorical trends and even help resolve disputed historical and historiographical issues. Using onomastic methodology to substantiate and complement historical research, Avram examines the historical development of these surnames, their geographic patterns, and the ways in which they reflect Romanian Jews’ interactions with their surroundings. The resulting surnames dictionary brings to light a lesser-known chapter of Jewish onomastics. It documents and preserves local naming patterns and specific surnames, many of which disappeared in the Holocaust along with their bearers. Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania is the third volume in a series that includes Pleasant Are Their Names: Jewish Names in the Sephardi Diaspora and The Names of Yemenite Jewry: A Social and Cultural History, both of which are available from Penn State University Press. This installment will be especially welcomed by scholars working in Holocaust studies.
Author: Lars Menk Publisher: Bergenfield, NJ : Avotaynu ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 832
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This dictionary identifies more than 13,000 German-Jewish surnames from the area that was pre-World War I Germany. From Baden-Wuerttemburg in the south to Schleswig-Holstein in the north. From Westfalen in the west to East Prussia in the east. In addition to providing the etymology and variants of each name, it identifies where in the region the name appeared, identifying the town and time period. More than 300 sources were used to compile the book. A chapter provides the Jewish population in many towns in the 19th century.
Author: Carol Meyers Publisher: HMH ISBN: 0547345585 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 1017
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“This splendid reference describes every woman in Jewish and Christian scripture . . . monumental” (Library Journal). In recent decades, many biblical scholars have studied the holy text with a new focus on gender. Women in Scripture is a groundbreaking work that provides Jews, Christians, or anyone fascinated by a body of literature that has exerted a singular influence on Western civilization a thorough look at every woman and group of women mentioned in the Bible, whether named or unnamed, well known or heretofore not known at all. They are remarkably varied—from prophets to prostitutes, military heroines to musicians, deacons to dancers, widows to wet nurses, rulers to slaves. There are familiar faces, such as Eve, Judith, and Mary, seen anew with the full benefit of the most up-to-date results of biblical scholarship. But the most innovative aspect of this book is the section devoted to the many females who in the scriptures do not even have names. Combining rigorous research with engaging prose, these articles on women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament will inform, delight, and challenge readers interested in the Bible, scholars and laypeople alike. Together, these collected histories create a volume that takes the study of women in the Bible to a new level.
Author: Adele Berlin Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199730040 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 962
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"The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion has been the go-to resource for students, scholars, and researchers in Judaic Studies since its 1997 publication. Now, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, Second Edition focuses on recent and changing rituals in the Jewish community that have come to the fore since the 1997 publication of the first edition, including the growing trend of baby-naming ceremonies and the founding of gay/lesbian synagogues. Under the editorship of Adele Berlin, nearly 200 internationally renowned scholars have created a new edition that incorporates updated bibliographies, biographies of 20th-century individuals who have shaped the recent thought and history of Judaism, and an index with alternate spellings of Hebrew terms. Entries from the previous edition have been be revised, new entries commissioned, and cross-references added, all to increase ease of navigation research." -- Provided by publisher.
Author: Benzion C. Kaganoff
Author: Benzion C. Kaganoff
Author: Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer
Author: Alexander Beider
Author: Alfred J. Kolatch
Author: Nelly Weiss
Author: Alexander Avram
Author: Alexander Beider
Author: Lars Menk
Author: Carol Meyers
Author: Adele Berlin