Alexander Avram, "Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania "
English | ISBN: 0271091428 | 2021 | 308 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0271091428 | 2021 | 308 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Linguistic and semantic features in names―and surnames in particular―reveal evidence of historical phenomena, such as migrations, occupational structure, and acculturation. In this book, Alexander Avram assembles and analyzes a corpus of more than 28,000 surnames, including phonetic and graphic variants, used by Jews in Romanian-speaking lands from the sixteenth century until 1944, the end of World War II in Romania.
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