As the popular anecdote in the world there is no such thing that the Chinese would not serve a meal, and a Jew - name.This is partly true, since the origin of the Jewish surnames has a history of more than three hundred years.The people there for much longer, but as he once was like Gypsies and had no fixed place of dislocation, it and its representatives did not require surnames.They lived scattered about all over the world.However, in the 18th century came the laws, are obliged to get the names of all the Jews, to be able to somehow identify.
can say that almost all the Jewish names created artificially.They are derived from the names of both male and female, as well as the professions, from the names of animals, from the exterior, from the geographical names, etc.The most common surnames are the ones that are at the roots of the clergy such titles as "Kohen" and "Levi", for example: Kaplan, Cohen, Katz, Kaganovich, Levinsky, Levitan, Lev Levinson, Levin, etc.
If the priest in the family was not, often from Jewish surnames were invented names, which simply added the ending or suffix.So there Samuels, Abrahams, Israels, Mendelssohn and others.If the name, derived from the name, is the end-zone or -COH, this means that it is the son of the carrier specific person.For example, the son of Abram - Abramson, son of Michael - Mihaelson son Mendel - Mendelssohn, etc.In the same way there were Jewish names derived from female names, because we know that women are very honored by the Israelites.For example, Rivkin, Sorinson, Tsivyan, Baileys - is derived from the name Rebecca, Sarah, Tsiva and Bale respectively.Jews living in the Tsarist Russia, to name suffix -evich or -ovich.So, get Abramovich Berkevichi, Arevichi, Hagaevichi and others.
Many Jewish names are derived from the names of professions.The most popular - is, of course, Rabinovich, as has occurred on a religious profession as a rabbi.From here follow Rabin Rabinzon, Rabiner and others with similar backgrounds.If you met surname Schuster - which means that the man in the family is sure to have been shoemakers.The names Kramer, Gendler and Schneider translated as "shopkeeper", "trader" and "tailor", respectively.
Jewish names, the list of which will be followed by further, come from geographic names: Gomel, Lemberg, Sverdlov, Klebanov, Teplitskii, Podolsky, Volyn, Lviv, Liozno etc.Some of the names may sound like a Russian, for example, Mudrik, Gorbonos, big, Belenky, etc.But do not be deceived, because they were due to the appearance or character traits of their owners.Also, a lot of artificial names that consist of two interconnected roots.For example, Goldenberg, Rosenbaum, Glickman, Rosenfeld, Goldman literally translates as "golden mountain", "Rosewood" (meaning no color, and flower), "happy person", "pink box", "The Golden Man", respectively.
