Where Did Those Ashkenazi Jewish Last Names Come From? - Would Jew Guess

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Published 2021-03-10
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.
All Comments (21)
  • @joannatiger
    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.
  • @loneyplanet
    Many surnames aren’t necessarily Jewish; they are just German.
  • @briansheets3996
    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.
  • @helenelevy1642
    Brad, your program on Jewish last names is the best. You are amazing. Love, Helene
  • @altrey520
    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.
  • @LeonardAaron
    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.
  • @davidsdiamond3269
    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.
  • @tagbarzeev3571
    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.
  • @nerminsoysal2076
    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?
  • @lilydiallo594
    I am from Argentina 🇦🇷,and my maiden name is Krajuam. It is Ashkenazi, I have Eastern European ancestry
  • @EmiliavanBeugen
    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?
  • @Landis_Grant
    Jewish surnames: Golden. Gold, Silver, Stein, Shapiro, Weiner, Lerner, Goldman, Sachs, Goodman, Weinstein, Blank, Kraft, Goodell, Bettman, Sterling, Dolan, Seinfeld, Kissinger, Singer, Epstein, Abrams, etc.
  • @cthoffman9351
    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.