Jewish family names & their origins, an etymological dictionary, Eva H. Guggenheimer and Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
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Jewish family names & their origins, an etymological dictionary, Eva H. Guggenheimer and Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xli-xlii)
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no index present
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non fiction
Main title
Jewish family names & their origins
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991642498
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Eva H. Guggenheimer and Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
Sub title
an etymological dictionary
Summary
The present dictionary offers an inventory and etymological explanation of current family names for most Jewish groups: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, Oriental, and modern Israeli. Jewish family names are "chronicles written in code" as one historian put it, and reflect the history of the Jewish people from the world of Biblical Patriarchs to the present. This dictionary is the most complete compilation of its kind in English, and contains over 70,000 family names, from the common to the exotic for nearly every Jewish group. (from the introduction and p. [4] of cover).
Table of contents
Use of the dictionary -- Introduction -- Jewish proper names: Biblical names, other Jewish names, names in the vernacular -- Sobriquets -- Professional and place names -- Modifications of names -- Spelling -- Multiple explanations -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Special sounds in Roman letters -- Dictionary.
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