Re: [Cz-L] Did Austro-Hungarian Jews buy their surnames?

From: carlos hecker <karl991513_at_hotmail.com_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:36:45 +0000
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After the takeover of the Bukovina in 1775 the Austro-Hungarian swiftly wen=
t about the business of Germanizing everything and everyone. The necessity =
to populate the territory caused it to be opened to the Galizianer Jews. Th=
ey were given incentives to come and not have certain obligations ( militar=
y and taxes ) Imagine the

third rank clerk trying to register the Saioivich family. Names were German=
ized for the sake of the administration records. The Rumanians went about l=
ikewise with fierce determination. You could not have a municipal job if we=
re not fluent. It was forbidden to speak anything in public that was not Ru=
manian. Imagine the spelling nightmare with the names.This was repeated wit=
h venom by the Ukranians. But no one master the ethnic cleansing like the R=
ussians. Ohhhh the Russians really cleansed. The natives were sent to Siber=
ia and a new Russian population came in.
Estonia became 60 % Russian. That is why Estonia has taken to steps to homo=
genized the country and tie it into a gigantic Web. We are so lucky.
[Carlos Hecker]

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Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 4:19 PM
To: Irene Fishler
Cc: jerome schatten; Czernowitz Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Did Austro-Hungarian Jews buy their surnames?

Even though late, I would like to join the discussion about Jewish names.
>From what I have read, it seems that Ashkenazi Jewish names
Have many origins; some are based on Hebrew words such as:
Sapir, Sofer, Melamed, Lapides, Kohen, Kohn, Kogan, Levi, Jidel, Katz and
Schapira. Others are based on city or country of origin, such as: Brodi,
Katzenelbogen, Landau, Reiner, Deutsch, Englander, Oppenheimer,
Frankfurter and Czernowitzer. Some are based on profession or merchandise
The family sold, such as: Schuster, Schneider, Koch, Schmidt, Reifer, Kushn=
ir,
Gew=FCrzt, Mandel, Zucker, Samet, Fischman, Mehlman, Tischler, Brotman, Sin=
ger,
Kantor, Fruchter, Kimmelman, Fleischer, Fuhrmann, Steinmetz, Diamant, etc.
It is entirely possible that some Jews had to bribe officials in order to g=
et
Particularly nice names such as: Rosenblum, Rosenblat, and Blum.
Some officials, either because they were not offered a bribe, or because th=
ey
Disliked Jews, gave out names such as Ohrenstein (earwax), Igel (hedgehog),
K=F6nig (king), F=FCrst, Wiseltier and Stuhlsaft.
Sometimes Jewish people asked to be given names with which they were famili=
ar
Because they were the names of well known or important Jews.
This may be the reason for the frequency of some names.

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              Mimi
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