Would you guess from where Ashkenazi or Eastern European Jewish Last Names Derive? Find out the history of "Jewish" surnames on this edition of Would Jew Guess.
My 5th great grandfather was a man named Wulf. He picked our last name, Tiger, around 1790. He became Wulf Tiger. I loved discovering this and it still brings me joy.
In Judaism there are not really family names it's just Moshe ben (son) Abraham or Rivkah bat (daughter) Shlomo and so on. In the 18th and 19th century in several European countries it was mandated to adopt and register a family name for taxes and conscription purposes and that's the origin of European legal Jewish names (which can be from towns or cities, professions and occupations, and so on). But the traditional Jewish naming still persists and is used for the ketuba, for kadish and other documents and comunal usage
I'm Ashkenazi of German/Jewish descent. My surname was anglicized from Schutz to Sheets. It is a occupational surname meaning guard, or warden. Or one who shoots a bow or rifle.
My grandfather came to the US at 7 years old by way of Spain by way of France by way of Germany and when he came his name was Marcial and since he came from northen Spain, Galicia, he used the surname Gallego which was the dialect in Galicia. Now, 5 generations later, I'm now only 10 percent Ashkenazi Jew but learning more and more of my Jewish heritage!!! Cool fact...he was actually raised by the one and only Geronimo and yeah we have pictures and documentation to prove it lol.
Them he got a good role model, as I know Geronimo was a worrior that always fight for his people, a very noble sentiment, you may also have Sepharim ancestry (spain)., I heard their music is getting very popular. Abrazos Hermano.
@Jxxkkkk That's interesting you say that. I'm almost all Ashkenazi but my other contributing genetics is mainly Eastern European. PS It's DNA, not "dma"
@@jxxkkkk433 Nope. DNA studies show the Maternal lines in Jewish populations are mostly from European females. This is consistent with history of human migratory patterns, that is, men travel and get it on with local women of regions traveled or conquered. Ashkenazi jews are a unique ethnogroup in that sense, However their religion and literal biblical views claims they are the sole heirs of a a "chosen" people from ancient times. This is a genetic impossibility. Welcome to the 21st century.
Started tracing our family tree, dad's side, and it's been interesting. Our lineage is Lithuanian, Latvian, & Belarus Ashkenazi. Family names are Diamond and Moss. Most of that side of the family ends in WWII, at the camps, and there is not a lot of info to find. Gonna keep digging and see what I can find.
Many of the shtetles in Europe, Poland, Russia... still have their original birth, marriage, death records. My mother's family came from Poland. My sister traced my Family back to the 1600s. We knew many towns, first and last names, etc. The spelling is sometimes Russian, sometimes Polish, depending on the years, or the towns. There are ways to write to the actual towns in Polish or Russian, and people who can help with some translations.
The term Ashkenaz is what the Jews of The early middle ages called Germany.They settled along the Rhine River in cities like Mainz, Worms and Spyers. Yiddish is Middle high German with loan words from Hebrew Aramaic and a touch of slavic.Slavic came later as Jews left Western Europe due to Anti semitism. A Polish king actually Casimir the Great wanted Jews in his land.
@The Last Stand delusions exist among the uneducated on both sides. That one Haredi was probably from Neutra Cartra they are wackos. The third video talks about Mizrahi jews who are about 50 percent of the Israeli Jewish population .Mizrahi jews are geneticly similar to Ashkenazi or sephardic jews we all come from the Levant and both Mizrahi jews and sephardic jews use the same Minhag.I see know reason to go on unless you want to be made more foolish.
I read somewhere that some Jewish names like Tannenbaum were imposed upon Jewish families by authorities hoping to humiliate them. Tannenbaum means "Christmas Tree" so that one would be pointing out that this family didn't celebrate Christmas.
I'm a Turkish stemming from south Siberia, through a long way of Mongolia, Central Asia abd Khazar to Anatolia. My DNA shows 6 percent Ashkenazi Jews. Is this something that shows the origin of Ashkenazi Jews as Khazarian?
From the recent Israeli - Palestinian conflict, and issues with my digestive system since a young age, I've traced it to my Ashkenazi ancestry. Even though my last name is an obvious sign, I had never known or could've even told you what that meant. I'm American through and through, raised Christian, but proud of my ancestry and hope im able to learn more soon.
@@daveconrad6562 my uncle has Crohns and the rate at which Ashkenazi descendants have Crohns or inflammatory bowel disease is quite astronomical compared to the general population with no relation to Ashkenazi Jews. but do pay attention to your digestive system because it's not just a weakness or "soft" the in my case, major swelling to the point where it's very painful digesting and moving throughout my system and even effects my blood flow. drinking plenty of water seems to help quite a bit if you are looking for something that helps whether it helps with pain or the stress on your body in general. my uncle has had to have surgery for his and as severe as mine is, I imagine I will too in the near future if God blesses me with the money to do so. because as of right now, it's almost impossible to live a normal life.
Same here my weight gain problems where traced back to my ashkenazi heritage I just found out about my biological-fathers last name is Katz. My ancestors came from Poland. Although I am mostly Sicilian raised catholic I’m very proud to be Jewish very proud to be A part of such a strong background. ❤️ although people may think it’s wrong I will were my cross right next to my Star of David. This is who I am this is who you are and I’m glad to see others cherishing it.
@@Shadow_foxx1 it's important to pass it on. it's lasted this long because it was cherished. even if we might not have experienced it to the full, it's important to carry it and hand it to the next generation. our ancestors went through way too much.. from 75 years ago to a few thousand years ago.. way too much struggling and hardships, specifically due to their identity, to not do our duty.
@@cthoffman9351 so wonderful to read this. I have informed my 16 yr old son of his heritage and his eyes lit up and he was very happy. Even going as far as too tell all his friends. We will keep our history alive in every way possible ❤️
Very helpful and certainly pretty common in the US. I am not sure why my ancestors in 1802 took their last name: van Beugen. The son of Jacob Moijses (Moses Jacob) migrated from the town of Nijmegen to Den Haag during the late 1700s. As far as I can tell they never lived in the little town "Beugen" ... who knows?
A smaller branch in Hungary on my mother's side have German names mostly or Hungarized ones, while my paternal line from Translvania also has some Slavic ending names (not all of them though), e. g. Berkovits. I have a Weisz great great grandmother and someone claimed her grave's Hebrew writing said halevi, so her relatives were Levites too. I didn't find any Levys or Levines etc. I also have an Ungár anccestor, maybe that comes from Hungary too? (I am Hungarian).
Thank you so much! Our family name was Weiss, changed to Wise once arriving in the US. We often wondered how this happened. Still don't know. Thank you.
@@thedude232 Or some dull government bureaucrat spelled it wrong. That happens a lot. I knew some old folks who named their son "Wilbert" and he was registered as "Milbert" which was too much hassle to change so he was stuck with it forever.
A historian once told me that the Austrian officials who assigned new surnames to poor Galician Jews who did not speak German made fun of them by registering names like Goldberg and Rosenfeld.
This is correct. The more outlandish the name, the better the antisemitic Austrians liked it. They especially liked flowery names like Rosenblatt (rose leaf), Rosenbloom (rose flower), etc. My family is Galician on both sides, so I'm very familiar with this practice.
Wow. My family only spoke German/ French/ and Hungarian! So their name's are Good Man & New Man. So simple. My Mom's family were English Jews. Sterling & Mayor.
@@amymack1954 I read it was the opposite. Jews often were willing to pay for good-sounding names with Gold, Silber, Diamant, or Rose in it. Poor Jews who couldn't bribe the authorities got less appealing names like Kurtz (short), Schwartz, Klein, etc.
Grandma came from Germany in the 1940's her maiden name was Gerson/Gérson. I believe it's a Hebrew origin and I see the name used a lot in Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries
Klein and Weiss etc are NOT direct translations from German. They ARE German because these people lived in German-language territories (Austria-Hungary, Germany)
Great video! I read somewhere that some Jewish last names like "Tannenbaum "which translates to "Christmas tree" were imposed by local authorities to humiliate Jews. Is this true or not?
Very interesting. Especially the explanation about the last names. Thank' s. Only the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. Only 50 years. It was in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War. It is not very important but 1787 was the Austrian Empire. Just to make (be) everything correct.
Hritchkewitch(Hirsch🤔) is my Grandfather's surname but upon reaching the USA could have slightly changed🤔Origin Russia but he was born in Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Korb,and there's a city in Germany named after them. They asked my grandmother for money during WW2 and she was so angry because she thought they were nazis. They had a Castile in italy which is now a hotel. My grandfather's name was Harry Louis Korb.
Mine is simple, a distorted "Israeli". There are quite a few of us, all from a certain area of Poland/Belorussia, originally. In Russian, Zrull was additionally distorted into Tsiroulnik[ov].
I have read that now that we have genetic testing, it has been found the Cohens and Levys are separate groups whose DNA goes way back and indicates that those people are in fact descendants of the ancient priesthoods. I don't remember where I read this, so I can't verify the source.
Mine is "Girardi" from Northeastern Italy/Austria/Bavaria Germany. They were involved in the crusades as knights Templar. Weird. I found the family crest but using their non-Jewish one.
I'm pretty close to 100% Ashkenazic Jewish, but my mom's surname is both a common German and Yiddish surname and my dad's surname used to be Bruder, German for brother, but they changed it. Not at Ellis Island, but a good two centuries before my great-grandfather immigrated. They changed it to something that sounds vaguely Polish, but doesn't actually mean anything, as far as we know.
Hecht :Family name origins & meanings German and Dutch : from Middle High German hech(e)t, Middle Dutch heect, hecht ‘pike’, generally a nickname for a rapacious and greedy person. In some instances it may have been a metonymic occupational name for a fisher and in others it may be a habitational name from a house distinguished by a sign depicting this fish. Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from GermanHecht or Yiddish hekht ‘pike’, one of the many Ashkenazic ornamental names taken from vocabulary words denoting wildlife.
My father's father was from Lithuania and his wife came from Russia: Jacob and Edith (Subotnik) Levich. Of interest - to me, anyway - no middle names. Perhaps middle names were considered "baptismal" names? They came over with my grandmother's mother, Rose Subotnik, and my father was born in Iowa. Both he and his brother (my uncle) also had no middle names. My father, for instance, Marvin Levich.
Dna shows Ashkenazi have Levantine origins by way of Anatolia and North Iraq. But Maternal lines are almost exclusively European. Yidish most scholars agree derived in Germany. And the surnames as well. The Religion asserts that they are Gods sole people. Yikes!
They do have a distinguished last name that’s what are used to do when I used to work for the Canadians news when I came to the holidays it’s for all the greetings so I am pretty good at knowing what a Jewish last name… I can pick out a jewel a mile away, no offence
You THINK you know a Jewish name is but truth is you would not know one if it slapped you in the face. Not all "Jewish sounding" names are only used by Jewish people. Many stereotypical names are actually more Jewish than the Jewish sounding ones.
@@davehughesfarm7983 the children of Isaac were gathered before the first century generation ended the 12 Stones have become chalk stones which means Jacobs iniquities have been removed they're known as the Saints of heaven today
Can someone please give me more information on the surname "Buirski"or "Buyarski"..it is my great grandfather's surname who was a Jew and i know his family came from Poland(walksowski) but that is all i know.
Names such as Buyarski or Buirski might take it's origins from, perhaps, ' Bojars' .Who were, depending on country the aristocracy till XIV century Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth
@@MrKraktor thank you very much for the reply,i struggle to find information. I found out that he came from Sulwalki and the correct spelling is "Boyarski"..i have never even met a Jew so i struggle to find info
If you still care for a tip... as @EmiliavanBeugen pointed out, Berg means mountain. Apparantly the As-part used to refer to ash trees. Many places (villages as well as hills and mountains), mainly in Germany and Austria, have the name Asberg: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asberg
@@aremedyproject9569 I did Google translate, it said, Mountain-weaver, but I've found it very difficult to varify. I know there's a Camp-ground in The Netherlands, with our Surname. That's as close as I have gotten. I think it maybe Ashkenazi, perhaps explaining why theres only 11-12(?)of us in total now.
Bene Manasseh and Bene Ephraim derive their surnames from the nature in the language called tamil or kurux outside the state of tamil nadu. These jews speak my languages now limited to only the tribes of east India with whom they married and settled down with.
My Ashkenazi Jewish grandmother was also from Galicia! I am researching her ancestors also! I am looking for relatives with surnames LEHRER & KAHANE born around 1850.
Some of my Dad Fred White's family members died in the Holocaust. My Dad, Fred White was born on April 23, 1917, and he was in the NAVY during World War 2. There are exhibits at some of the museums for documents that are kept on file for family members of people who died in the Holocaust. There is also a genealogy research library at some of the Jewish centers. My Dad, Fred White's gravesite is located at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York in Long Island.
Sekarang ini di Indonesia sedang ramai-ramainya perselisihan tentang isu keturunan nabi Muhammad palsu berdarah Yahudi Ashkanazi. Keributan ini betul-betul sangat meluas ke seluruh pelosok negeri di Indonesia. Banyak tokoh-tokoh agama berdebat tentang masalah ini hingga terjadi pro dan kontra, kebanyakan pemuka agama dan rakyat Indonesia menuntut kepada keturunan nabi Muhammad palsu ini untuk di lakukan tes DNA, dan sebagain menginginkan mereka untuk di pulangkan ke negara asal mereka dulu yaitu (Yaman) karena gerakan gerakan mereka yang sering bikin kisruh dan provokatif dengan mengatasnamakan keturunan nabi Muhammad dan juga penentangan terhadap pemerintah, padahal Indonesia adalah negara yang mempunyai populasi keturunan nabi Muhammad yang asli terbesar di seluruh dunia. Di duga keturunan nabi Muhammad palsu yang berdarah *_"Yahudi Ashkanazi"_* ini di datangkan ke Indonesia pada sekitar tahun 1800's oleh seorang orientalis Belanda bernama *_"Christian Snouck Hurgronje"_* dengan tujuan untuk melemahkan warga muslim Indonesia yang selalu memberikan perlawanan terhadap penjajah Belanda pada masa itu. Kisruh ini hingga ke pemerintahan di tuntut menyelesaikan melalui kementrian agama, juga organisi Islam terbesar di dunia yaitu *"NU"* di tuntut untuk ikut serta menyelesaikan. Jumlah mereka sa'at ini sudah sangat besar sekali berada di tiap pelosok negeri ini, dan kebanyakan dari mereka menjadi tokoh-tokoh agama besar yang sangat berpengaruh dan memiliki masa yang sangat banyak sekaligus pengikut fanatik. Kelihatannya bila perselisihan ini terus memanjang akan menimbulkan kekacauan yang sangat dahsyat dan luar biasa yaitu terjadi perang saudara, di karenakan Indonesia adalah negara muslim terbesar di seluruh dunia. Bila anda sedang *_"Yahudi Ashkanazi"_* yang asli mungkin akan sedikit bermanfa'at untuk di lakukannya pencocokan darah dan tes DNA.
My sister has a whole "Steinhart" line from the border of Poland and Russia going back to the 1700s. They are spelling it Steinhard, Steinhardt, Steinhart, etc. Do you know the area that your ancestors were from? We also are tied to Warsaw, and other villages in the province of Radom.
Термин «евреи-ашкенази» - это просто «Шпиль» / «Спин», чтобы отделить хороших и плохих от одних и тех же людей. В чем разница между евреями-хасидами, евреями-ашкенази, евреями-реформистами, евреями-ортодоксами, евреями-масортами, евреями-реконструкторами, евреями-харедим и т. д., если судить только по внешнему виду? но когда вы говорите «черный», это включает в себя миллиарды людей, которые идентифицируются только по физическим чертам. Их переустановка повествования.
Levitt is a Jewish surname from the tribe of levi, Rivett is my grandma surname it 'looks simular. Also when my mum went to an eye shop they asked her if she was Caucasian because she didn't have Caucasian eyes, also she had a type of cancer that ashakanazi Jews of African American women get. Please do reply with your views, im a Christian and would love to have Jewish blood.
I have to break the news to you but Jews ARE mainly Caucasian with the exception of converts. Not sure what you mean tbyt your comment about "Caucasian eyes".
@@dorisbarnes5288 If not Caucasian, then what? There are only 4 options; mongoloid, australoid, caucasian and negroid. The original Jews, as all people aboriginal to the Near East, are Caucasian. Hope that helps.
Gerry Wilson glad this is on you tube as finances required us to give up DirecTV pur prayers are with those in Israel suffering from the Hamas attack I am ashamed of the squad group in Congress who claim Israel is to blame for the attacks they should study their history a little more before flapping their gums
