Re: [Cz-L] Rivno sawmill

Alternate theory from the database of Beit Hatefutsot:

Rzeszow - a town in Galicia known in Yiddish as Reisha.
See: <http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/rzeszow/index.htm>
Some Jews coming from Reisha and living elsewhere at the time surnames
were adopted in the A-H empire, would have taken the surname Reischer or
Reisch (a shortened version).

Perhaps Rzeszow itself was named after a nearby reed bed? This would
combine both theories . . . but all very speculative.

Thanks,
Bruce

On 3/6/14 21:46, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> Reisch Name MeaningGerman: from Middle High German risch, rusch 'reed'
>or
>'rush', a topographic name for someone who lived near a reedbed, or a
>habitational name from any of several places in Bavaria and Moravia named
>Reisch from the same word.Source: Dictionary of American Family Names
>©2013,
>Oxford University Press
>
> 291,205 Historical Documents and Family Trees with Reisch on
>Ancestry.com
> 154,007 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths33,631 Military Records20,563
>Immigration Records33,456 Census and Voter Lists49,548 Member Family Trees
>Hardy
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
>To: "Bruce Reisch" <bruce.reisch_at_cornell.edu>
>Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <CZERNOWITZ-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 11:37 PM
>Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Rivno sawmill
>
>
>> My paternal grandmother was also a Reisch, also from Rewna.
>> Her father's name was Hersch, most certainly not of noble descent.
>> Occasionally her name was spelt "Resch", which makes me think
>> that the name originated from the Hebrew letter "resh".
>>
>> Raisch is quite a common name in Austria, possibly pronounced Ra-isch.
>> In the list of German and austrian nobility names I could not find the
>> name Raisch,
>> but possibly a common man named Raisch, became a count in Rewna.
>>
>> Mimi

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