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Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,454 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; [1]: 190 the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries. [ 2 ] Jews have some of the largest varieties of surnames among any ethnic group, owing to the geographically diverse Jewish diaspora , as well as cultural assimilation and the ...
Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin (7 P) Surnames of Sephardic origin (98 P) Pages in category "Hebrew-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category ...
Note: Listed are American people for whom reliable sources have been found indicating full or partial Jewish ancestry, but who do not necessarily identify as, or are not necessarily practicing, Jews. For Americans who are, see Category:American Jews
Surnames of Jewish origin (10 C, 1,456 P). Jewish-American families (179 C, 20 P) Jewish-Austrian families (7 C, 2 P) Jewish-British families (42 C, 9 P)
Berry is a surname with numerous etymological origins.. Some of the first British Jewish families to emigrate to the United States had "Berry" as their surname. It comes from the Polish (eastern Ashkenazic) "Jagoda", which is Polish for "berry" (Anglicised; as a Jewish family name, it is one of the Slavic variants of the Hebrew biblical male proper name Yehuda (in English, Judah).
Apart from these original surnames, the surnames of Jewish people of the present have typically reflected family history and their ethnic group within the Jewish people. Sephardic communities began to take on surnames in the Middle Ages (specifically c.10th and 11th centuries), and these surnames reflect the languages spoken by the Sephardic ...
These are lists of prominent American Jews, arranged by field of activity. Lists of Americans; By US state; By ethnicity; Afghan; ... The Jewish Phenomenon: ...