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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 […]

Baghdadi Female Given Names -A Crowd-Sourced Fragmental List

Filed Under Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Given Names, Iraq اَلْعِرَاق By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on December 4, 2017

Little attention was dedicated so far to the research of female given names of the Jews in the Levant. The most recent dictionary by the late Mathilde A. Tagger[1] deals mainly with Sephardic given names and barely touches the given […]

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