Why are Jewish family names so different in Europe and in Middle east?
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In Europe, Jewish families didn´t either have family names at all or the family name was the name of the father.\nAt the beginning of the 19 th century, Jews had to choose family names in many european countries. But names from which you could "see" that the person is jewish, that means names which sound jewish, were not allowed because the Jewish people should be assimilated. So, the choosed for example German, French or Russian names.
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one thing you dont want to call them is arabs.. they are very adament about "NOT" being arab... I get this a lot from them... I am american-arab myself. and my american family thinks anyone from the middle east is arab.. but so not true.. Israelis are not arab, Turkish folks are not arab, Iranians are not arab etc etc.. they have their own language and their own culture.. even though these groups share the historic like culture of desert dwelings, dark skin, olive complected, etc etc of the past.. Iranians are muslims.. majority are shiite muslims which have a bit of somedifferent viewpoints from other muslims, like Saudi's for example which are mainly sunni muslims..
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because i'm from israel,and i realized that ur name is israeli boy,so were like the same...u know what i mean..?(if not its fine,not sure i totally understand what i meant!!)
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The reason some people type G-d instead of typing the whole thing is because in some religions it is disrespect to write the whole name in.  Why they dont is because we don't want someone printing it out and defacing G-d's name(on purpose or not on purpose).  One of those such religions is Judaism.
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There have been a few studies done which prove that many Jews do have a common male descendant. I know there was a study which shows that most "Cohen" (priests) do have a common male descendant (Aaron ?)\n\nThe problem with proving that Jews and Arabs are descended from a common male descendant:\n\n(1) Judaism has had many converts over the years. Some entire cultures (one in Africa, one in Asia) actually converted.\n(2) A jew is defined (by jews) as one who has a jewish mother. It has been that way for 2500 years. So one with a jewish mother, but gentile father would be harder to prove via "y" chromosome.\n(3) "Arabs" today are not the same as Arabs in biblical or even in Mohammed's time. Take for instance Egypt. The Egyptians were Copts until Islam. When they converted to Islam, they started speaking Arabic instead of Coptic. So they became Arab ethnicity without actually being of Arab descent.
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One of the problems you may encounter is that sometimes immigrants changed their names in the new country.  For example, in John Jake's book "Homeland" he tells the story of a German immigrant family to the US named 'Kronin', who upon arriving in the US changed their name to 'Crown'.  The name 'Delbrey' could have been made up.  I know a person who was of Hungarian ancestry, and I believe the original name may have been something like 'Fulke', after a divorce changed her name from Shaeffer to 'Folk'.  So you see the problems in trying to trace things like this can be overwhelming.  Unless you have some record of the family line going way back it could be a very difficult search indeed.
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Most who spell it with a Hyphen "-" are Jewish.  It is a tradition from the Old Testament where God warned them not to take His name in vain, so they do not pronounce the name of God to avoid the misuse of it.
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thats funny. but the truth of the matter is that jews are decended of the Isralites that lived in biblical israel over 2000 years ago and the father of both jews and most arabs is the Abraham of the bible. Both are refered to as semitic peoples. they are from the area but they are two compleatly different peoples.
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i am a former south african ,married to an persian jew.they are very loyal when it comes to family,been happily married for 27 blissful years,from mikhal in israel.
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Yeshua used to be a common Jewish name, but I have not known this to be a common thing today.  Jews do not take the names of what they would consider to be a false God, and since Christians worship Yeshua (Jesus), then they do not take that name, and some will not even pronounce it!  They will say "Yoshke" or "Yoshkele" or something like that.\n\nThe rest of those are not Jewish names.  But some may have Hebrew equivalents.  For example, if I'm not mistaken, James = Jacob - Yaakov.  There are PLENTY of Jewish Yaakov's.
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Palestinan and Israel conflict.  Jews moved on their land during WW11.  Divided over who gets Jeruselem and holy areas.  Just an idea.
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No because the Jews came from a very distinct family line.  It started with Abraham and then through Jacob which God later names Israel. There were many people on the Earth when Abraham was around.
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My family has a history of royalty in the countries of Syria, and France. That's on my father's side. On my mother's side, she is Lebanese. Other than that, i have no other nationalities. Other than Canada -- i was born there. But i am an american citizen.\n\nI most identify with my Syrian and Lebanese identities, since my father is from Syria, and my mother from Lebanon. My first name is Lebanese, and my last is Syrian. Doesn't sound foreign though -- Sami isn't a very uncommon name.
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It is true that the Almighty did not say, "Listen, thousands of years from now when a new language called English comes along, they can pronounce my name as 'Jehovah' and that's fine."\n\nInstead, like with any and every personal name, different languages TRANSLATE personal names to fit their lingual tendencies. George becomes "Hor-hey" in Spanish or "Gay-org" in German and no one gets upset.\n\nAs another answer mentions, the same people who get all upset about translating the Hebrew name 'Yahweh' or 'Yehowah' into English as 'Jehovah' have absolutely no such qualms about translating the Hebrew name 'Yeshua' into English as 'Jesus'!\n\nIf you don't like the English translation, no one is telling you that you can't use the Hebrew original of the divine name.
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Don't get me started on this subject. I believe and some historians agree that the only true originals of that area of the world is the Palestinians every Jew is not genetically connect to the original people only religously.\nNotice most of the Jews that came back to "take back their land" came there from European countries. I have no problems with Jews at all but the facts are most Jews of wealth and knowledge were taken away by the Romans in the \ndays of Roman rule  inter-bred wth  the local people and convert some to Judaism.This is over 2000 years!\n The ones that stayed were invaded by others and eventually became Islamic and called themselves Palestinian.\nThe only reason the major countries of the world support Israel is because the Jews control the banking industry of the world.They got the money! I told you not to get me started.
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Good point.\nHowever, the Jews don't have the practice of B.C. / A.D.\nThey are in the year 6 thousand and something.\nImagine how important a person must be considered to divide historical eras based on his birthday.
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It's basically because this is still a man's world !\n...Fathers used to take pride in having their names 'live' on - by naming the eldest son, and heir apparent to their family surname, as their 'jr.'.\n...Mothers very seldom had any say in naming their daughters - and few fathers cared to christen a daughter with their wife's name, which might have brought about a trend of female 'juniors' as well.\n...But even then, when a girl gets married, tradition demands that her surname be changed to that of her husband : \nUnder these circumstances, a girl can be called her mother's junior only until marriage - because, once she gets married, the 'junior' suffix will have no significance, or meaning with reference to her husband's family surname !