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This is a list of Jewish surnames. For more information on naming in the Jewish tradition, please see onomastics in Judaism.

Contents 1 Biblical names 2 Hebrew names 3 Names from Judaism 3.1 Translated (Germanised, Yiddishised) names 4 Old German pedigrees 5 Old Eastern pedigrees 6 From Yiddish names 7 New surnames & others 7.1 Germanised, or German surnames 8 From Eastern Europe 9 Sephardic names 10 Mizrahi surnames 11 Italian surnames 11.1 Italkim surnames 11.2 Surnames derived from Italian villages or cities 12 French surnames 13 Yemenite (Temani) surnames 14 Karaim, Krymchak 15 Others 16 See also 17 References 18 External links

[edit] Biblical names

Note that the original Biblical name is given first:

• Aaron = Aron, Aronbayev/Aronbayoff, Aarons, Aaronson, Aronov/Aronoff, Aronson, Aronovich, Aronowicz/Aronowitz, Arenstein, Arnstein, Hornstein/Horenstein/Gorenstein

• Abraham = Aberke, Aberl(Aberle), Aberlein, Aberlieb, Aberlin, Abers, Aberzuss, Abraham, Abrahams, Abrahamson, Abram, Abrams, Abramovitch/Abramovich/Abramowicz, Abramoff, Abramov, Abramowitz/Abramovitz, Abreska, Abromovitch, Afroemche, Afrom, Afromle, Babrahams, Braham, Ebermann, Ebril, Abel.
• Alexander = Alexander, Saunders, Sender.
• Asher = Anschel, Ansell, Anscher/Ancher/Antscher, Antschel/Ancel, Ančerl, Archer, Ascher, Asher, Asherson, Assur, Maschel.

• Baruch = Bendit, Bendict, Benedict, Beniton, Berthold, Borach, Boruch

• Bathsheba = Bashevis, Basevi, Bassevi
• Benjamin = Lopes, Lopez (also a non-Jewish Spanish name), Seef, Seff, Wolf, Wolff, Wulf.

• David = Bendavid, David, Davidowitz/Dawydowicz/Davidovich/Davidovitch, Davids, Davidson, Davies, Davis, Davison, Dawidowitsch, Tewel, Tewele, Teweles (cf.Tevye).

• Elchanan = Elkan, Elkin.
• Eleazar = Eleasser, Eleazar, Ellosor, Lasar, Lazan, Lazar, [Lazarus].
• Eliezer = Leeser, Leser, Lewis, Leyser, Leiser, Löser.
• Elijah = Elias, Eliasaf, Eliassof, Eliason, Elie, Elijah, Ellis, Ellison/Ellisson.
• Emanuel = Emanuel, Manuel, Mendel.
• Ephraim = Fischel/Fischl, Fishel/Fishl, Fischlin, Fraime.
• Ezekiel = Eheskel, Ezekiel, Heskel, Haskil, Kaskel/Caskel.

• Gabriel = Gafril, Gefril.
• Gedaliah = Guedallz.
• Gershon = Geronymus.
• Gideon = Gedide.

• Isaac = Eisech, Eissig, Gitzok, Ickzack, Isaac, Isaacs, Isaacson, Isaacstein/Isaakstein, Itzig, Izaaks, Hickman/Hickmann, Hitchcock, Lachman/Lachmann (cf.lachen; "Isaac laught"), Sachs, Sack, Sacks, Sace, Sackel/Sakel/Seckel, Sichel, Zeklin.
• Israel = Israel, Israels, Israelson, Isril, Isserl, Isserlein, Isserles.
• Issachar = Achsel/Axel, Bar, Baer, Barell, Barnard, Barnett, Berush/Berusch, Beer, Berlin, Bernard, Berthold, Schulter.

• Jacob = Benjacob, Jackson, Jacob, Jacobi, Jacobs, Jacobson, Jacobus, Jacoby,Jacobi, Jakobi, Jacobson, Jacof, Jainof, Yokelson/Jochelson (cf.Vladimir).
• Joel = Jool, Jolchen, Julius.
• Jonah = Jonas, Jonassohn, Jones, Taub, Taubmann, Taubman, Tauber, Dauber, Taube, Taubes.
• Joseph = Jees, Jessel, Jessop, Jocelyn, Josel/Jossel/Joselewicz, Joseph, Josephi, Josephs, Josephson, Joskin, Joslin, Josselson, Yoish, Yosl.
• Judah = Ben-Ari, Ben-Löb, Judah, Judel, Judelson/Idelsohn//Idelson, Judith, Leo, Leon, Leoni (cf:Leo Lionni), Leonte, Leontin, Leuw, Lion, Lionel, Löbel, Löblin, Leubusch, Löbusch, Löwe, Löwel, Lyon, Lyons.

• Levi = Aleuy, Elvy, Halevy, Ha-Levi, Lavey, Lebel, Leblin, Levay, Leib, Leopold, Leve, Levene, Levenson, Levi, Levie, Levien, Levin, Levinsky, Levinsohn, Levison, Levit, Levy, Lewey, Lewi, Lewin, Lewinski/Lewinsky, Lewinson, Lewis, Löb, Löbl/Löbel, Loewe, Loewi, Louissohn, Lovy, Low, Löwy, Lowy.

• Manasseh = Manasse, Mannes, Menasci, Mones.
• Mordecai > Marcus = Marx, Mordchen, Mordkin?.
• Menahem = Man, Mandl, Manin, Mann, Mendel, Mendelson, Mendelssohn, Mendl, Menke, Menken/Mencken(Minkin), Menkin, Menlin, Menzel, Monitz, Monnish (Moniuszko?), Minkovsky (Minkowski).
• Moses = Mausche, Mauss (cf.Marcel), Moise, Moiseev, Moiseiwitsch, Moritz, Mosche, Mosely, Mosen, Mosessohn, Mosesson, Moskin, Moss, Mosse, Mossel.

• Naphtali = Cerf, Harris (cf.Zellig Harris), Harrison, Hart (cf.Lorenz Hart), Herschell, Hershkovitz, Hertz, Hertzen, Hertzl, Herz, Herzl, Hirsch, Hirschel, Hirschkovitsch, Huzka(Jenő Huszka), Zewi.

• Samson = Sampson.
• Samuel = Samuels, Samuelson, Sanvel, Sanville, Sanwil, Saville, Schmuel, Zangwill, Shinwell.
• Simeon = Simeon, Simmel, Schimmel.
• Simon = Schimme, Schima, Schimchen.
• Solomon = Salaman, Salman, Salmen, Salmon, Salmuth, Salom, Salome, Salomon, Salomone, Salomons, Schlemel, Schlome, Szlomowicz/Schlomowitz/Schlomowitsch, Shlomovich/Shlomovitch, Sloman, Slowman, Solomons, Suleiman.

• Zachariah = Zacharias.

[edit] Hebrew names

• Kohen (one of the Kohanim; a member of the priestly caste), Cohen, Kohn, Cohn, Kuhn (also a non-Jewish German surname), Kahn, Surel, Kohan, Kogan, Cogen, Kahan, Cahan, Kahane, Kaganovich

• Efron, Efros, Efrusi (from Efrat, a town near Bethlehem)

• Heimann, Hyman, Vidal (חיים, chayim; life)

• Chajes (חַיּוֹת, chayyot; creatures, as in living beings; animals) (not חייט, chayyat; tailor)

• Chofetz, Heifetz
• Geffen, Gefen (גפן; vine)
• Jaffe, Yaffe, Joffe, Ioffe, Yoffe

• Margulis, Margolis, Margoliouth, Margoliut, Margoliuth), Margoliot, (Margolioth (from margālīth, margālīyôt(h)<ref>What's In A Name? By Chuck Jackson from GENERATIONS (PDF)</ref>; pearl)
• Milgrom, (pomegranate)
• Melamed, Malamud (מלמד, melammed)
• Maggid

• Mosse (from Moses?)

• Nachmann (from Nachum)
• Narkis (narcissus)
• Nathan (disambiguation), Natan, Nathanson, Natanson: Andrew, Matt, Jakub (chemist), Maurice, Wladyslaw, Amalia Nathansohn Freud, et al.

• Peretz, Perec

• Osheroff, Oeyser (< עֹשֶׁר ‘ōšer; property, wealth)

• Rachmann, Rachman, Rackman (רחמן, rachămān-; merciful)
  • Peter Rachman, Leib Rochman (1918-1978), Emanuel Rackman

• Agassi (not Agassiz)
• Ibn Ezra
• Kimhi, Qimchi
• Zachariah (Hebrew for "God Remembers")
• Yahalom, Yahaloman (diamond)

[edit] Names from Judaism

• Achselrod, Axelrod, Akselrod, from Issachar
• Hassar

• Helmann, Hellmann, Helman, Hellman, Elman, Gelman, Gellman < from Hillel
• Kantor, Cantor, Spivak, from chazzan
• Lehrer, Lerer
  • Lerner
• Matus, Mattuss, Matusowitz, Matusov, Matusoff
• Megged, Maggid
• Rabin

• Reznik
  • Resnick, Reznikoff (cz.řezník, russ.резник = shochet, fleyshman, a butcher (Fleischmann, Fleischman, Fleischer, Fleischhacker, Schechter))

cf.Emil von Rezniček(cf.Řezníček) (probably Christian Czech origin)

Trevor Reznik

Mirel Reznik, Israeli Gypsy-style violinist

Charles Reznikoff

Hanon Reznikov

• Sagan, Segan
  • Segal (סג"ל), Siegel, Shagal, Chagall, Seagal, Siegel, Segalis -an acronym of סגן לוי Segan Levi, meaning "Assistant Levite"

• Freud, Sasson, Sassoon

• Guttmann, Guttman, Gutmann, Gutman, Goodman (from Tob?)

• Schechter, shochet

• Schur, Schorr, Shore

Issai Schur

Howard Shore

• • Schorer

Mark Schorer

Marc R. Schorer

• Schul, shul(G.Schule)

Bob Schul

• • Schüler, Schuler

Else Lasker-Schüler

Hans Schuler

Max Schuler (Maximilian Schuler)

Ron Schuler, politician

Schuler tuning

• • Schüller, Schuller

Eugène Schueller

Gunther Schuller

Robert H. Schuller

• • • Shuler

Shuler Hensley

• • • Schiller, Shiller
  • Schulberg

Budd Schulberg

• • Schulhoff

stoneburner

Lipót Schulhof

Ervín Schulhoff

• • Schulmann, Shulman

• Sofer, Soyfer, from sopher

Jura Soyfer

• Katz
• London
• Schatz, Schatzberg, from　shatz = šəlīach tzibbūr

Aaron Schatz, sportswriter and founder of Football Outsiders

Steve Schatzberg

Jerry Schatzberg

• Wallach,cox

• Popper (Placename)

[edit] Translated (Germanised, Yiddishised) names

• Berman, Bermann, from ber(Bähr), bear

• [Lapel]]
• Lempel
• Lieb, Liep, Liebman(n), Libman, Liepman(n), Lippmann, Lippman, Lipmann, Lipman

Liebkind, Liebeskind, Libkind, Lipkind

• Süß, Süßmann, Zisman, Süßkind(Suskind, Susskind), Ziskind

• Fried, Friedman, Friedmann - from shalom(peace), shlomoh (Solomon)
• Freud - from Simchah
• Hirsch, Hirsh, Hirschfeld, Herz, Hertz, Jelinek, Jellinek, Szarvas, Zvi
  • Harry Hershfield (originary Hershfeld)
  • Andy Hertzfeld, John Heartfield (born Herzfeld)
• Selig, Seligman(n), Zelig, Zelikow
• Wolf, Wouk, Farkas, Zeev
• Raedar, Raeder, Rader

[edit] Old German pedigrees

• Adler

• Auerbach(er), Averbakh

Erich Auerbach

Leopold Auer

Madame Kaulla(nee Auerbacher)

• Bamberg, Bamberger - from Bamberg
• Bernstein

• Bloch (see also Wallach)

• Carlebach
• Dressner, from Dresden
• Epstein, from Eppstein.
• Evert, Ewart, Evard, Ewarth, Ewerth, Awret, Avret
• Frankel
• Frankfurt, Frankfurter, Frankfort, Popper
• Furst, also Fuerst and Fürst

Julius Furst, orientalist

Chajim Furst, merchant

Alan Furst, US writer

Stephen Furst, US actor

Artur Furst, German author

• Guggenheim(er)
• Gertsch(on)

• Günzburg, Ginsburg(Ginzburg), Ginsberg(Ginzberg), from Günzburg

• Hahn

• Halberstadt, -staedter

• Heilbron, Halpern, Halperin, Galperin, Alperowicz, Alferov, Alpert, Alpár - from Heilbronn

• Hildesheimer, from Hildesheim

• Kronenberg, Cronenberg
• Katzenellenbogen, from Katzenelnbogen

• • Katzenelson, Katznelson

Berl Katznelson

Yitzhak Katzenelson

Bat-Sheva Katznelson

Shmuel Tamir (Katznelson)

Ira Katznelson

• Kaplan
• Markstein
• Morgenstern
• Nauen
• Nurick
• Neidich
• Oppenheim(er)

• Rappaport, Rapaport, Rapoport
• Rosenberg
• Rothschild, Schwarzschild, from house shield

• Schwartz

• Spira, Spiro, Shapiro(Schapiro), Shapira, Sapir, from Speyer(from Sephardi?)

• Sinzheim, Sinzheimer, form Sinzheim

Löb Sinzheim

Hugo Sinzheimer

• Strauss
• Ullman, Ulmann, from Ulm
• Wallach
• Warburg, from Warburg
• Weigel
• Weil, Weill, Veil, Veill
• Wertheim(er), from Wertheim
• Zunz, Zonser (cf. Emma Zunz, Heinrich Zunz of Odeon Records, Leopold Zunz, Eliakum Zunser, Helen Zunser Wortis, Alexander Zuntz, Gunther Zuntz), from Zons

[edit] Old Eastern pedigrees

• Schlesinger, Shlonsky, Slezak, from Silesia
• Lasal, Lassel, Lassalle, from Wodzisław Śląski(Loslau), Silesia
• Lipschitz, Lipsitz, Lipshits, Lipschütz, from Leobschütz(Głubczyce), Silesia

Image:AltneuschulPrague.agr.jpg Image:Praha Staronova Synagoga.jpg

from "Costume" portion at the Jewish Encyclopedia

The names of the most prominent Jewish families of Prague are: Eger, Bondi, Gans, Horwitz, Chajes, Tausk(cf.Taussig), Jaffe, Landau, Meisel, Epstein, Posner, Kuranda/Koranda, and Karpeles; Hock, Wolfy, Wessely (first Jewish professor in Austria), and M. I. Landau deserve particular mention. The population of Prague is 201,589, of whom about 19,000 are Jews. The present (1905) chief rabbi is Dr. N. Ehrenfeld. The Neusynagoge, the Meiselsynagoge, and the Tempelgemeinde have their own preachers.

• Abel, Abeles, Alebev, Abelson
• Anscher, Antschel, Ančerl
• Auspitz, from Hustopece
• Austerlitz, from Slavkov/Brna
• Brandeis - from Brandýs nad Labem
  • Brandys

Kazimierz Brandys

Marian Brandys

• • Brandis
  • Brandes

Michael Brandes

Nunche Brandes

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes

• Eibenschütz, Eibeschütz - from Ivančice
• Horowitz, Horovitz, Horvitz, Horwitz, Hurwitz, Hurewicz, Gurevich, Gurvich - from Hořovice
• Katz, from Prague
• Kisch
• Meisel, from Prague
• Perutz - from Peruc
• Präger(Praeger), Prager, Preger, from Prague
• Trebitsch - from Třebíč
• Levit, from Levitovitch

• Eisenstadt

• Tucker

[edit] From Yiddish names

• Moscheles, Moischel, Moszkowski - from Moyshe (Moses)
• Loeb, Loew / Leib, Leibowicz, Leibowitz (Eastern Yiddish) - from Loewe (lion)

Annie Leibovitz

René Leibowitz

• Nadson

[edit] New surnames & others

• Baum
• Baumgart
• Baumgartner, Baumgardner

• Bernstein

• • Amber

• Birnbaum

Jeremiah Birnbaum

Nathan Birnbaum

• Blumberg, Blumenberg
• Steinthal

• Buber, from bóbr(beaver)?
  • Biberman

Herbert Biberman

• Complainstein
• Deutsch

• Diamond (disambiguation), Dimant, Diamant, Diment
• Dartar, Doertar, Tartar

• Ehre-
• Erlich, Ehrlich, Ehrlichman

• Eichenbaum
  • Eichenwald
  • Eichel, Eichelbaum
• Einhorn

• Feldmann, Feldman

• Frankenberg, Frankenberger
• Frankenthal, Frankenthaler

• Fould, from Fulda?

Ludwig Fulda

• Gold
  • Golden
  • Goldberg
    • Goldberger
  • Goldenthal
  • Goldenweiser, Goldenveizer
  • Goldfarb, Alexander Goldfarb
    • Alexander Goldenweiser (disambiguation page)
  • Goldmann, Goldman
  • Goldstein
  • Goldenweiser
  • Golding

Louis Golding

• • Goldmark
  • Goldschmidt
    • Goudsmidt
  • Goldstücker

• Gould, from Gulda?

• Hecht, Gecht
• Heller, Geller
• Holland (disambiguation), Holländer

• Kaufmann, Kauffmann, Kaufman, Kauffman, Kofman, Koyfman

• Crystal, Kristol, Kristall

• Lachmann, Lachman, Linderman

• Maccabee
• Mandel, Mandelbaum, Mandelbrod
  • Almond
• Moneystein

• Nussbaum

• Rappaport

• Rein, Reines

• Rosen
  • Rosenberg
  • Rosenblatt
  • Rosenfeld
  • Rosenman, Rosenmann: David Rosenmann-Taub, Samuel Irving, Leonard (film composer), etc.
  • Rosenstock
  • Rosenthal
  • Rosenzweig

• Rubin, Ruben, Rubinstein, Rudner

• Sachs, Sax

• Safran, Shafran, Shifrin, Schifrin, Schiffrin

Edmond Safra

• Stein
  • Steiner
  • Steinberg (disambiguation)

• Stieglitz, Stiglitz

• Wachsmann, Waxman, Waksman, Vaksman
  • Waxman

Al Waxman

Franz Waxman(Franz Wachsmann)

Henry Waxman

• • Philipp Wachsmann, violinist. see List of free improvising musicians and groups
  • Iggy Wachsman, see List of Israeli musical artists
  • Selman Waksman

• Wasser

Ed Wasser

• • Wasserman(n), Waterman
  • Wasserstein

• Wechsler, Wexler, Veksler
  • Viktor Vekselberg

• Wein-
  • Weintraub
  • Weinreb
  • Weinglas
  • Weinmann, Weinman
  • Weingart, Weingarten, Weingartner
  • Weinberg, Weinberger
• Wiener

• Wen-
  • Wenitzuits

• Zucker
  • Zuckerman, Zuckermann, Zukerman, Cukierman
  • Sugarman
  • Zuckerkandls
  • Cukor, Cukr

George Cukor

• • Sugar (disambiguation)

Alan Sugar

• • Zukertort

• Zweig

• Shenkin, Sheynkin
• Shenkar, Schenker

Justin Shenkarow

Heinrich Schenker

• Scher, Scherbaum, Scherman, Sherman, Schirman
• Schirwindt
• Schiff, Schiffman
• Schick

• Holitscher, Hollitscher (Arthur, Philip, Wolf, Walter), from Hollitsch/Holitsch = Holíč
• Herxheimer, from Herxheim
• Creizenach

[edit] Germanised, or German surnames

• Ackermann, Ackerman
• Altman, Alterman
• Barr
• Brenner
• Breuer
• Eisner, Eysner, Eisler, Eysler
• Fuchs, Fux
• Gross
• Haas
• Herzog
• Holtz
• Hugo
• Klein
• Schmidt, Smits
• Schneider, Schneiderman, Schneidermann
• Siebert
  • Chayyat (Khayyat), Hayyat from חַיָּת chayyāt‘; "taylor"; not hayyoth)
• Weiss, Weis, Weisz, Wise

[edit] From Eastern Europe

• Aaronovitch, Aronowitz, etc. son of Aaron.

• Abramson. Son of Abram. It may occur in the following variations: Abrahamson (-sen), Abramovich (-wich), Abramoff (-ov), Abramowitz (-vitz), Abramski (-sky), Abramowski (-sky), Abramek, Abramian, and Abrahamian.

• Asimov, uncommon Jewish surname from western Russia, briefly discussed in the autobiography of Issac Asimov

• Berg, Berger

Bergmann, Bergman

• Boyer: when German, can be a modification of "Bauer", farmer.

Lucienne Boyer

• Boyewsky: Jewish surname found in Yekaterinoslav, Russia; later modified to "BOESKY", of the Boesky family who arrived in Detroit, Michigan.

• Balshemnik, Balshemennik, Bolshemennikov: from Baal Shem: Wizard. A Jewish surname from Belarus.

• Burstein, Boorstyn, Burstyn, Birstein...

Originated from Bursztyn(Burshtyn) (shtetl in Galicia, now Ukraine) and Birstein (historical state in Germany, see also Isenburg-Birstein, Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein)

• • Burshtin - one of Hasidic dynasties
  • Burstein

Dror Burstein, Hebrew author

John Burstein, see Captain Kangaroo

Michael A. Burstein

Shmuel Burstein

Stanley M. Burstein

Tal Burstein

David Burstein

• • Ellen Burstyn
  • Alex Borstein
  • Yossl Birstein
  • Alan Berstein (cf. Beer (beautiful, or bear))
  • Boorstyn, US historian

• Dorfman, Dorfmann

• Fijman

• Gordon: Possibly derived from Grodno; habitational name.
  • Eliezer Gordon
  • A. D. Gordon

• Huber: the German name is derived from Huober, a farmer holding a fief. It has also been explained as an abbreviation of Hubert or as a derivation of Heber, the Hebrew Patriarch. It may occur in the following variations: Hiver, Hivar, Hubbar, Hupper, Huper, Hobar, Hibber, Kuber, Kubri, Kivri, Heber, Eber, Hever, Ever.

• Chodorov, from Ukrainian placenames. (Khodoriv, near Stryi, Burshtyn and Rohatyn, Lviv oblast, Galicia / Khodoriv, a small village near Rzhyschiv, Kyiv oblast)

Nancy Chodorow

Alejandro Jodorowsky

• • Khodorkov- (from Khodorkiv near Andrushivka and Popilna, Zhytomyr oblast, Volhynia / Khodorkivtsi near Bibrka, Lviv oblast, Galicia)

Khodorkovsky

• Kalisch, Kalischer: Often a family with this name originated in Kalisz, but then settled somewhere else, where 'Kalischer' was used to describe them.

Isidor Kalisch

Zevi Hirsch Kalischer

• Katzman – Abbreviation of Cohen ( high priest in Hebrew Temple on Temple Mount) and Tzadik ( teacher, scholar) Hebrew. Man was added later and has German origin. This last name is popular among Jews originated from South-East Belarus (town Mozyr).
  • Katzke

• Klempel
• [Kelitat]

• Kolikov: son of Kolek. Russian surname.

• Kutner, Kuttner(Cutner), from Kutno

• Krasner, Krosner

• Lasker, Laski

• Lewandowski

• Meier, Meyer, Maier, Mayer, Meir, Meyr, Mair, Mayr, Myer (disambiguation)
  • Myers, Myerson, Meyerson
• Milavetz, Jewish surname from Lithuania
• Milstein, Miľštejn
  • César Milstein
  • Nathan Milstein
  • Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein)
  • Robert Merrill (< Mirrel Miller < born Moishe Miller < Millstein)
• Minkowski
  • Noll
  • Nollmeyer
• [Otto]
• Pinsker, Pinski

• Plotkin, Plotke: from Plotki. Jewish surname from Belarus.

• Podolski, Podolsky, from Podolia
• Pust
• Rabinowitz, Rabbinowitz, Rabinovitch, Rabinowich: Son of a rabbi. Jewish surname. (This surname has the owitz ending, meaning "son of"). Poland, Russian Empire, other Eastern European countries.

• Shklover, Shklovsky, from Shklov, Belarus

• Shlonsky, from Slask, Poland

• Slonim, Slonimsky, from Slonim

• Slutsky(Slucki), from Slutsk

• Smolensky, from Smolensk

• Soloveichik

• Spector, Spektor: From the Russian Spectorski, meaning inspector. Jews who registered as inspectors with the Russian or Ukraine governments received a favored status with respect to travel, although those who collected taxes were also generally resented in the shtetls (Jewish ghettos).

• Tik(o)tiner, from Tykocin

  Felix Tikotin

  Wolf ben Leib Tikotiner

  Judah Loeb ben Simchah Tiktiner

  J. Tiktiner blouse

  Rebeka Tiktiner(Rebecca Tiktiner, [1])

  Gedalja Tiktin

• Trachtenberg, Ukrainian surname

• Trakiner, from the village of Trakine, Lithuania (misspelled Trokiner in France)

• Twersky

• Unger, Ungar

• Usyshkin

• Wiznitzer, Witznitzer, from Vyzhnytsia(Wiznitz), Bukovina, or Wiśnice(Wischnitz), Upper Silesia

[edit] Sephardic names

See also Sephardic Names

• Abecassis
• Abravanel
• Abulafia
• Aguilar (or D'Aguilar)
• Aleman, Alleman -see Mateo Aleman
• Alvarez
• Araujo, Araújo, Arauxo
• Acevedo, Azevedo, Acebedo
• Azoulay
• Bendayan
• Benmamán
• Bensousan
• Benveniste, Benvenista, Benvenisti
• Buendía
• Chocrón
• Cordova, de Cordova
• Costa, da Costa
• Crescas
• Espinosa
• Galante
• Garcia
• Gaster, from Castro
• Guerreiro
• Hassa
• Lindo
• Lombroso
• Luria (Lurye, Luryi)
• Medina
• Najara (Najar, Nijar, Nagar, Nagara, Nagari), from Najera, Navarra ([2])
• Pacheco
• Pereira
• Perels
• Peres
• Perez
• Pinto
• Ruah
• Saadia, (Saadya, Saavedra), from Saad (Salomon) and in the case of Saavedra from Pontevedra, Galicia
• Salazar
• Saporta. Saporte
• Silva, da Silva
• Simha
• Sultán
• Surel, originally Kohen
• Taurel
• Toro
• Torres
• Touro
• Toledano
• Vidal
• Zacuto

[edit] Mizrahi surnames

• Khardun, Hardoon

http://www.hardoon.net/

• Sasson, Sassoon
• Israeli
• Sar-Shalom

[edit] Italian surnames

[edit] Italkim surnames

• Azzopardi
• Castelnuovo
• Galante
• Luzzatto, Luzzatti
• Montefiore
• Morpurgo, Austro-Italian family, originally from Marburg, Styria [3]
• Pincherle
• Sforno
• Basilea, Basila, Bassola, Basola, Basla
• Bassani, Basseni, Bassano, Bassan
• Levi
• Sacerdoti
• Cantoni

[edit] Surnames derived from Italian villages or cities

A

Alatri - Ancona - Anticoli - Ariccia - Ascoli - Asti - Baresi - Bari - Bassano - Bologna - Bolognese - Borghi (Borgo Trentino) -

C

Cagli - Caivano - Camerino - Campagnano - Capua - Carpi - Castelbolognesi - Castelfranco - Castelnuovo - Castiglioni - Catania - Cave - Cavalieri (Piemonte) - Cesana - Cividale - Cingoli - Civita - Colorni - Conigliani - Cori - Corinaldi -

F

Fano - Ferrarese - Firenze - Fiorentino - Foligno - Forlì - Frascati -

G J L

Gattinara - Genazzano - Genova - Genovese - Genovesi - Guastalla - Jesi - Lecce - Licata - Livoli - Limentani -

M

Macerata - Manzano - Marcaria - Marino - Marradi - Massa - Massarani - Melli - Mentana - Messina - Mestre - Milanese - Milano - Minerbi - Mirandola - Modena - Modica - Momigliano - Mondolfo - Mondovì - Monselice - Montagnana - Montalcino - Montecorboli - Mortara - Muggia -

N

Napolitano - Nepi - Nola - Norlenghi - Norsa (Norcia) -

O

Ortona - Orvieto - Osimo -

P

Padova - Padovano - Palermo - Pavia - Pavoncello - Perugia - Pesaro - Pescara - Pescarolo - Piazza (Sicilia) - Piperno - Pisa - Pisano - Parenzo - Pitigliano - Poggibonsi - Pontecorboli - Pontecorvo, from Pontecorvo - Pontremoli - Prato - Pirano -

R

Ravenna - Rignano - Recanati - Reggio - Revere (sul Po) - Rieti - Rimini - Roma - Romani - Romano - Rovighi - Russi - Russo -

S

Saravalle (Veneto) - Scandiani - Schiani - Schiano - Schio - Senigaglia - Sereni - Sermoneta - Servi - Sforno - Siracusa - Soave (Veneto) - Sonnino - Sorani - Sulmona - Supino -

T

Tagliacozzo - Teglio - Terni - Terracina - Tivoli - Torinese - Torinesi - Torino - Trieste -

U V Z

Udine - Urbino - Veneziano - Vercelli - Veruli - Verona - Vigevano - Viterbo - Voghera - Volterra - Zara -

[edit] French surnames

• Astruc (from "star"; pararelled with Sephardic "Astruga" cf. kokhabh (Bar-Kochba'), Stern)
• Clouatre
• Halphen (cf.Chalfan-Halévy)
• Lafitte
• Lunel
• Vidal

[edit] Yemenite (Temani) surnames

• Aroussi
• Damari (inhabitant of Dhamar)
• Kahalani
• Kapach
• Leiwy
• Orkabi
• Sharabi (means several things; 'Peace unto Sons of Israel', inhabitant of Sha'ab, Yemen and 'Peaceful/Respected Rabbi').
• Tzadak
• Yishai
• Yekutiel

[edit] Karaim, Krymchak

• Atar
• Bakshi
• Bashyazi
• Chapicho
• Chubor
• Kolpakchi
• Kose

[edit] Others

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• Jahoda
• Feuer-: Feuermann/Feuerman, Feuerstein
• Handelmann, Hendel (also given name)
• Handwerk, Handwerker
• Hanf/Hanff
• Gurlitt, Gorlitt, Gurlt
• Fabrikant
• Diment, Diament, Dymant, Dimont
• Rivlin (Israeli family)
• Damrosch
• Hofstadter
• Kanitz
• Kelitat
• Grünberg, Greenberg, Greenberger
• Grätz/Graetz, Grätzer/Graetzer, Gretzer
• Heshel/Heschel (cf.A.J.), Heschl (cf.Richard L.; famous for Heschl's gyrus), Hessel, Hesselman/Hesselmann (cf.Jonas), Hesselbach (cf.Franz K.)
• Hessen (cf.Sergius)
• Gutfreund (cf.John, Otto)
• Bacharach, Bachrach
• Wimpfen, Wimpfheimer
• Wirth, Wirtschafter
• Wint-, Wind-: Winternitz, Witerberger, Wintheimer, Winter, Winterman/Wintermann, Winterschweig, Winterstein
  Windmuehl/Windmühl/Windmuhl, Windmueller/Windmüller/Windmuller, Windt
• Wetzlar von Plankenstein (Freiherr)
• Bleiberg, Bleibtreu
• Gingold

• Wohlmann
• Wohlheim
• Kaskel (Alfred Kaskel, Bruce Kaskel, Cesar Kaskel, Walter Kaskel, Karl von Kaskel, Werner Caskel)
• Haase (cf.Ernst, Hugo)
• Vollmer/Volmer
• Vollweiler/Volweiler
• Uhlmann, Uhlman
• Neisser
• Kohlberg, Kohler, Kohlmann/Kohlman
• Brunswick, Brunschwig, Brunswig, Braunschweiger
• Fassbinder, Fassmann
• Bienstock, Binstock, Bienenstock, Bienenfeld (cf.Johann Adam Bienenfeld, Austrian Jewish merchant)
• Leuw, Leeuw
• Leidensdorfer, Leidesdorf, Leidesdorff
• Leifmann, Liefmann
• Lehrfeld
• Leder, Lederer, Lederberg, Ledermann (leather)
• Lederfain, Lederfajn
• Leiter, Leitner (cf.Friedrich, Gottlieb William)
• Leiter, Leitermann (leit- is dorrespond ot lead-)
• Lazar/Lasar/Lassar, Lazare/Lazarus, Leser/Lesser, Leeser, Lessmann/Lessman
• Abba
• Joel, Joelson
• Edel
• Büdinger
• Burger, Bürger/Buerger (Burgel is Sephardic family)
• Biederman, Biedermann
• Brod, Brody, Bródy (bread, or Slavonic place names (-)brod(-) = furth)
• Kunstädter, Kunwald
• Buchsbaum, Buksbaum, Buxbaum, Boxbaum, Boxenbaum.. etc.
• Derenburg (pedigree)
• Hefter, Heffter
• Farb, Farber, Ferber
• Lauterbach
• Lautenberg, Lautenberger, Laudenbacher
• Laube, Lauber, Laupheimer, Laubheim, Leipheimer
• Pulver, Pulvermacher
• Reich (disambiguation)
• Steinitz
• Ettlinger, Ottolenghi, Ottolengo
• Finer
• Schön, Schoen
• Spiegel
• Spiegelmann
• Spitz, Spitzer
• Schönberg
• Ury, Urey, from uri, ori
• Noether/Nöther
• Lachmann
• Gothein, Goithein, Gotainer
• Kirstein, Kerstein, Karstein
• Öttinger, Oettinger, Ötinger, Oetinger, from Öttingen, Bavaria
  • Ettinger, Etinger, Eitinger, Eytinger, Ejtinger
• Ettinghausen, Ettinghauser, Ettingshausen, Ettingshauser (cf.M.Sachs)
• Helfand, Elfenbein
• Apter, from Opatow
• Willstädter, from Willstett
• Appelbaum, Epelbaum, Epelboim, Apple
• Grünschlag
• Grünbaum
• Wein (onomastics)
• Gittel, Gitelman, Gittleman
• Hellerman
• Greenblatt
• Koch (Edward Koch)
• Gruenwald
• Nevelson
• Markowitz
• Edelstein, Adelstein, Adlestein
• Koffler, Kuffler, Kofler
• Okun
• Spiegelman
• Breisach, Breisacher
• Sekel, Seckel, from Yitzchaq
• Zemach, Tsemakh (</font lang=he>צֶמַח</font>)
• Teitelboim
• Lindenbaum
• Reichmann, Reichman, Rajchman, Richman
• Oppert
• Bischoffsheim
• Bing
• Blau
• Blaustein (disambiguation) (cf.Bluestein)
• Weinstein
• Lissauer
• Lisser, Lissack, from Lissa (Leszno)
• Widal
• Stekel (Wilhelm Stekel , Erich Paul Stekel, Moisés Stekel)
• Krakauer, Krakowski
• Sternberg
• Sternberger
• Schulhof, Schulhoff, Schulhofer
• Lövy
• Löw
• Löwe
• Löwenstein (disambiguation)
• Löwenthal
• Löwenstein
• Löwenstamm
• Löwengard
• Löwenfeld
• Löwi
• Löwy
• Löwisohn/Löwysohn (Loewisohn), Lewisohn/Lewysohn, Loewison, Lewison, Levison
• Löwinsohn (Loewinsohn), Lewinsohn, Lewinson, Levinson, Levenson, Lewenson
• Zipser
• Lehrmann, Lehrman, Lerman
• Fein (>Fain, Fine)
  • Feinberg, Fineberg
  • Feinblatt, Feinblat
  • Feingold
  • Feinmann, Fineman
  • Feinstein
• Edelmann, Edelman, Adelman/Adelmann, Adleman
• Greenhouse, Grinhaus, Grinhoyz
• Hamburg, Hamburger
• Wiener
• Balaban, Balabanov
• Wileński/Wilensky, Polonised form of Wilner: R. H. Wilenski, Kurier Wileński (Courier of Wilno), Robert, Uri, Danny
• Herszkowicz
• Mandelstamm, Mandel'shtam
• Weizmann
• Klemperer
• Kronecker
• Berlin, Berliner, Berlinerblau
• Kalonymus family
• Philippson family
• Silberman, Silbermann, Silverman
• Silberstein, Silverstein
• Romberg
• Romm
• Rose
• Rosen
• Rosenau
• Rudnick
• Landauer
• Kreutzer, Kreuzer
• Wattenmaker, Watenmaker, Watenmacher > Wanamaker
• Sutro
• Klemperer
• Hauser
• Strassburg, Strasburg, Strassberg, Strasberg, Strassburger, Strasburger, Strassberger, Strasberger
• Wallich, German family which probably derived its name from the Hebrew transcription of "Falk"
• Itzig
• Scherschewski, Scherschewsky, Szerszewski
• Mahler
• Mannheim, Mannheimer
• Munk
• Eichberg
• Bavli Hebrew for Babylon
• Breslau (disambiguation)
• Brodsky
• Litvak, Litvakov, Litvin(Litvinov, Litvinsky), Letvin, Letwin,Litauer, Littauer, Luttwack
• Zeitlin
• Oppert
• Warszawski, Varshavsky, from Warszwa
  • Adrienne Warshawski, Warshawski sail, Seth Warshavsky, Dawid Warszawski
• Kohut
• Feinberg
• Lessmann (cf.Leśmian)
• Magnus
• Gottesmann, Gottesman
• Dessau, Dessauer (cf.Paul, Friedrich, Josef, Max)
• Twersky/i, Tversky, from Chernobiler dynasty
• Weinstock (cf.Todd, Bob, Arnold(Lord))
• Ballin, Balin
• Bendemann
• Wanamaker (Watenmacher)
• Lustig, Lusztig
• Kazhdan, Kasdan
• Polgár
• Gottschalk
• Silkin
• Tiegermann, Tiegerman

• Penn (cf.Irving)

• Markson
• Mai-, from Meir
  • Maybaum, Maibaum (cf.Ignaz Maybaum)
  • Maisky
• Vilenkin, Vilensky^{[citation needed]}
• Minc, Mintz, Mints
• Pringsheim
• Feltsman
• Wolpe, Volpe, Wolpert
• Perl, Perle, Pearl, Perel
  • Perelman, Perlman(Perlmann), Pearlman, Perleman, Perlmuter, Perlmutter, Perlstein
• Kraft, Krafft, Craft
• Erlanger
• Reinach
• Grunwald, Gruenwald, Greenwald
• Moss
• Moskowitz, Moskovitz
• Vinograd, Winograd cf.Weingarten
• Bell
• Glas
• Glass
• Glaser, Glazer

• Berg
• Berger
• Berk, Berkoff
• Berle, Berl
• Blumenthal
• Bourg
• Spanier, Spanjer
• Dubinsky
• Steinmann, Steinman
• Stein
• Sherman
• Sonnenschein
• Sandler
• Clouarte, Glouarte, Goulart, Kliorit, Claret
• Dreifuß, Dreifuss, Dreyfuss, Dreifus, Dreyfus, Dryfoos, Treves, from Treverorum (Trier)
• Frank
• Bernheim
• Lewin
• Lewisohn
• Rifkin, (Riffkin, Rivkin, Ryvkin, Rifkind)
• Lewis
• Levert, Levertov
• Flürscheim, Florsheim, from Florsheim, Rhineland
• Funk
• Kantorovich, Kantorowicz
• Fink
• Himmelfarb
• Arnstein, Ornstein, Horenstein, Gorenshteyn, from Aharon
• Rothman, Rothmann
• Rothenstein, Rothstein, Rottenstein
• Kohler
• Wahl
• Feigenbaum
• Fried
• Salomon, Solomon
• Cronenberg
• Kessel, Kessil, Kesselman
• Elkan, Elkann, Elcan < Elchanan, Elhanan
• Roth
• Schneidermann, Schneiderman
• Soyer
• Remak
• Reisen
• Stiller
• Kornfeld, Cornfeld (Cornfield)
• Ashkenazi
• Zimbalist
• Lazarus
• Danzig, Dantzig, Danziger
• Fuks
• Furman, Furmanov
• Himmelfarb, Gimmelfarb
• Man, Mann, Manevich

• Politzer, Pulitzer
• Kalish, from Kalisz or Kalush
• Halberstam
• Kahane, Kahaneman, Kahnemann
• Halévy
• Weinreich
• Harkatz
• Harkavy, Harkavi

• Caro

Swanson

• Clouatre
• Kann
• Taubes
• Bronstein
• Lilienthal
• Auerbach, Averbakh
• Ausubel
• Shinwell, from Samuel
• Gomberg
• Wahl
• Sirota

• Fisch(Fish)-
  • Fischer, Fisher
  • Fischmann, Fischman, Fishman
  • Fischel, Fischl, Fishel, Fishl
  • Fischbein, Fishbein

• Berkowitz (Berkowicz, Berkowits), Berkovitz (Berkovicz, Berkovits), Berkovich
• Freud
• Freund
• Finkel
• Finkelstein
• Alter
• Raskin
• Salant, Salanter, from Lithuanian placename
• Pevzner(Pewzner, Pevsner), from Pevzno, Lithuania
• Brainin
• Avigdor

• Bein
• Bronfman, Bronfenbrenner
• Bettelheim

• Ellstein
  • Abraham "Abe" Ellstein*
  • Rick Elstein
  • Jean Bethke Ellshtain, J. B. Ellshtain

• Elyovitch

• Friedland

Martin Friedland

Noah Friedland

Robert Friedland

• • Friedlander, Friedländer

Lee Friedlander, US photographer

Leo Friedlander, US sculptor

• Grade
• Lichtenstein
• Lieberman, Liebermann
• Nadelman
• Gomperz
• Sohn
  • Sonja Sohn
  • Alfred Sohn-Rethel
  • Louis Sohn (Louis B. Sohn)

• Glück, Glueck

Louise Glück

Jeffrey Glueck

• • Gluck

Alma Gluck

Christoph Willibald Gluck (Christian Bohemian)

Rita Buglass Gluck

• • Glik(Glick), Glikl - Yiddish

Deborah Glick

George Washington Glick

Jeremy Glick

Jeremy Glick (author)

Jeremy Glick (September 11 attack victim)

John Glick, see Tri-Cornered Tent Show

Srul Irving Glick, Canadian composer

Glückel of Hameln

• Starker
• Asch, Ash, Asz (<אַ״שׁ (Eisenstadt), or Ashkenazi)
• Kushner
• Eisler, Eysler
• Eisner, Eysner
• Lämel (Lämpel, Lempel), Laemmle
• Zeisler (Zeissler), Zeisl, Zeisel
• Weidman
• Weinberg
  • Weinberger, Weinbergeris

• Neumark, Naimark
• Bronstein (<Braunstein)
• Feldstein
• Botstein

• Venezia, Veneziano, Venetianer
• Lombroso
• Finzi, Fintzi
• Kaneti, Canetti
• Jud, Judt
• Fürst
• Mroczkowski, Mroczkowsky (Galitzianer)
• Hyneman
• Schwarzfeld, Romanian family which became prominent in the 19th century [4]
• Pfeffer, Pfeffermann, Pfefferberg
• Wassertrilling, Trilling, Trillinger, Tringler, from Wassertrüdingen, Western Bavaria (cf.[5])

• Bass, Baskind, Basskind, Bassman, Bassmann
  • Basch, Baschmann
  • Bashkes, Baskas, Baskes, Baskies (< bath (daughter)?)
  • Baschwitz, Basewitz, Bassewitz
  • Basevi/Bassevi/Bassewi

• Braude, Braudes, Braudo, Broide, Broides, Broido
• Broch, Broches
• Brutskus, Brutzkus, Bruckus (cf.Boris D., David-Anatol, Judah Loeb ben David ([6]))
• Amsel, Amshel, Amschel
• Michelstadt, Michelstaedter
• Priesand, Prizant
• Pinner, from Pinne/Pniewy
• Pine, Pineles, from Peine (Hanover)
• Plessner
• Weltsch (cf. Amos, Felix, Robert, Robin, Samuel ([7]); cf. Welch, Weltch, Welsh)
• Kaplan, Kaplin, Kaplowitch, Kaufman, Kaufmann, Kopinski, Koppel, Koppellmann, Koppelevitch, Leppok
• Marchant, Merchant, Scobeleff
• Szczepański
• Siebert

[edit] See also

• Onomastics in Judaism
• List of Jewish nobility
• Pedigrees (Jewish Encyclopedia)
• List of Slavic surnames
• Polish surnames
• Family name etymology, German family name etymology
• List of Germanic-speaking cultures surnames
• Genealogy

[edit] References

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• "Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories", by David Zubatsky and Irwin Berent
• The Origine of Jewish Family Names; Morphology and History, Nelly Weiss (Peter Lang)

[edit] External links

• Names (Personal) - JewishEncyclopedia
• GABIN List of Jewish surNames, from a Polish Bussines Directory
• The Database of Family Names
• The Jews of Ethiopia and their Names
• http://www.geocities.com/okouneff/
• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
  • Surname List: Bytom
• Radix Index: Board for Hungarian genealogy research
  • Hungarian; with phonetical symbols
  • RadixForum
    • Hungarian; with phonetical symbols
    • English version; no Umlaut or other symbolsde:Familienname#Jüdische Familiennamen

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