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Contested Origins of Eastern European Jewry: Clues from History, Linguistics and Onomastics

Filed Under Europe - Northern, Given Names By Alexander Beider on March 22, 2020

Formally speaking, for Jews who lived during the 18th–20th centuries in Eastern Europe (in the territories of present-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Latvia, and Russia), we cannot take for granted that all their ancestors necessarily dwelled in the region […]

Jewish Surnames Adopted in Various Regions of the Russian Empire

Filed Under Eesti, Latvija, Lita, Polska, Surnames, Беларусь, Россия, Україна By Alexander Beider on October 1, 2008

This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at the IAJG Conference in Chicago, August 18, 2008—Ed.      Generally speaking, it is relatively easy to distinguish Sephardic surnames from Ashkenazic surnames. For example, if one sees two lists, the […]

Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching: An Alternative to Soundex with Fewer False Hits

Filed Under Methods By Alexander Beider and Stephen P. Morse on July 1, 2008

Searching for names in large databases containing spelling variations has always been a problem. A solution to the problem was proposed by Robert Russell in 1912 when he patented the first soundex system. A variation of Russell’s work, called the […]

Some Issues in Ashkenazic Name Searches

Filed Under Indexing Projects, Surnames By Alexander Beider on April 1, 2007

During the symposium that inaugurated the International Institute of Jewish Genealogy in September 2006 in Jerusalem, one lecture particularly attracted my attention, that given by Professor H. Daniel Wagner of the Weizmann Institute of Science. During his presentation, Wagner enumerated […]

Jewish Surnames Adopted in Various Regions of the Russian Empire

Filed Under Surnames By Alexander Beider on January 1, 1900

Generally speaking, it is relatively easy to distinguish Sephardic surnames from Ashkenazic surnames. For example, if one sees two lists, the first with the names Abitbol, Cordovero, Haddad, Modigliani, Oliveira and Toledano, and another list with the names Bergelson, Goldman, […]

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