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Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,471 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Zimmerman is a surname variant of the German Zimmermann, meaning "carpenter" (literally "room man"). The modern German terms for carpenter are Zimmerer , Tischler , or Schreiner , but Zimmermann is still used.
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Some traditional surnames relate to Jewish history or roles within the religion, such as Cohen ("priest"), Levi, Shulman ("synagogue-man"), Sofer ("scribe"), or Kantor ("cantor"), while many others relate to a secular occupation or place names. The majority of Jewish surnames used today developed in the past three hundred years. [3] [4]
The name Zimmerman is not a Jewish name. It is a sterotypical name like Goldburg, Finestein, Weinstine, Etc. These are German names. These names are associated with the Jewish population because many Jewish people settled in Germany, then later moved to other countries mainly because of the genocide circa WWII. My name is Edward C. Zimmerman, Jr.
Pages in category "Jewish matronymic surnames" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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 ...
Poster in the Yishuv offering assistance to Palestinian Jews in choosing a Hebrew name for themselves, 2 December 1926. The Hebraization of surnames (also Hebraicization; [1] [2] Hebrew: עברות Ivrut) is the act of amending one's Jewish surname so that it originates from the Hebrew language, which was natively spoken by Jews and Samaritans until it died out of everyday use by around 200 CE.