Jewish Names - Know Your Enemy!

1787, Joseph II of Austria passed a law which required all Jews to adopt a hereditary surname and similar rules were made throughoutEurope with Russia one of the last countries to make one in 1845.Some officials in Austria and Germany would only register names withfavourable meanings if they were paid and as many could not afford this, they were assigned surnames with derogatory meanings. In Nazi Germany, many Jews did not have Jewish names so they were forced totake Israel for men, Sarah for women, to identify themselves as Jewish.

The Israeli government encourages people to use Hebraicised names butmany surnames still retain Germanic or Slavonic forms.Aharoni Barak Bashevis Ben Zeev Ben-Shahar BerkovicBlomstein Bruck Chertok Cohen Datz Dayan Demsky Dobias Eshel Eshkol Federman Feinstein Gadi Ganani Golan Goldberg Goldman Golembo Goni Gottesman Grossman Haber Hadar Halevi Hamutal Harel Harpaz Har-Zahav Hefetz Ish-Shalom Jakubowicz Jerayesh Kafni Kantor Kedar KempinskiKollek Kostiner Krickstein Kuttab Liberman LotnerMachuv Mandebaum Mazar Meir Mendenhall Nachum Oded Ophir Pazy Peres Persky Pick Posner Rabin Ran Reiss Romach Rosenbaum Rosenberg Sayar Segal Shahar Shameel Sharett Shiloh Shimshelewitz Shkolnik Shmerkin Shoshan Shulman Singer Smashnova Tzon Uki Weidenseld Wiezman Yadin Yakobovitch Yedidyah ZahavyBritainAbraham Abrams Abramsky Abramson Adler Aidallbery Almog Alter Altman Altmann Angel Apfel Argov Aronsfeld Aronthal Ascher Asher Auerbach Bach Backer Baeck Bakstansky Baline Ballin Bamberger Barak Barnato Basch Bash Basin Baskin Baum Baumberger Bayme Beck BeckerBeer Beit Benisch Benski Berlin Berlinger Bettman Bezalel Bloom Blum Blumenfeld BombergBorach Braff Brann Brasch Brenner Breuer Brodetsky Büchler Cantor Cassel Chagall CohenCowen Daiches Danielovitch Davidson de Worms Deronda Deutsch Diamond Dienesman d'Israeli Dresner Dreyfuss Duchan Duchen Duchin Dukes Eban Ehrenburg Einhorn Einstein Eisen Emanuel Endelman Epstein Erlich Farber Fersht Fiedler Filipowski FinesteinFishman Fleischer Fleischmann Fraenkel Frank FrankauFrankel Frankfurter Franklin Friedlander Friedman Garbacz Garfinkle Gartner Gaster Geiger Gerber Gerlis Gertler Gestetner Ginsberg Gluckstein Gold Goldberg Goldbloom Goldschmidt Goldsmid Gollancz Goodman Gottesdiener Gould Goulston Graetz Greenberg Gretz Grois Gross Grossman Grunwald Halevy Hart Hartog Heilbron Henriques Hershon Herzl Hillman Hirschell Hirst Hodesmann Homa Horovitz Horowitz Hurwitz Hyamson Isaac Isaacs Isaacson Isaaman Iskowitch Itzik Jacob Jacobovits Jacobowitz Jacobs JacobsenJacobson Janner Jessel Josephs Jung KadishKagan Kahan Kahn Kalish Kantor Kantorowitsch Kaplan Katz Kershen Kobler Kohnstamm Kölmel Kosmin Kramer Kraushaar Krausz Lachman LahrheimLandau Landeshut Lasker Laski Latchman LawsonLebzelter Lehmann Lehrer Lerner Levenberg LeversonLevi Levin Levine Levinson Levinstein LevitchLevitt Levy Lichtman Lieberman Liebermann Lipman Littauer Livshin Loewe Löwy Lyons Maccoby Malbim Manis Manischewitz Mankowitz Mannes Margolin Margolis Marks Mattuck Matz Maxse Meir Meldola Mendel Mendelson Meninsky Merton Metz Mocatta Monash Mond Montagu Montefiore Morgenthau Moses Mowshowitch Munk Myer Myers Nenbauer Neuberger Neumegen Novokovichi Paliakov Perlman Pinero Pinsker Pinsky Piratin Pirbright Poliakov PollackPrag Prais Rabbinowitz Rabinowicz Reinhartz Reinharz Resnick Reuben Rivkin Rocker Rose Rosen Rosenberg Rosenstein Rosenthal Roth Rothenstein Rothschild Rothstein Rubin Rubinstein Sachar Sacher SalbsteinSalomons Saltman Saltzmann Samuel Samuels SandlerSarasohn Sarkin Sarlin Sassoon Schach SchalitSchapiro Schechter Schecter Schiff Schiller Schlesinger Schmool Schneider Schonfeld Schuster Schwab Sebag Segal Semon Shalit Shapiro Sharot ShermanShimoni Shine Shub Sieff Singer Sklare Somper Speyer Spiegel Spiro Starkman SteinSteinberg Steiner Stephany Stern Sternberg Stiebel Straus Susser Sutro Sylvester Szinessy Theodores Trachtenberg Twersky Ussishkin Vinchevsky Waley WallachWandsworth Wassermann Watterman Weber Wechsler Weil Weizman Weizmann Wiener Wigram Wirth Wolf Wolmark Woolf Yoelsen Yoffey Zalkind Zangwill Zedner Zeiman Zoegell ZundelRussia Chicherin Kabotinsky Levinsky Levitansky Levitsky LitvinovMatusevitch Okin Okun Pekarsky Pomerantz SegalowitchSharansky Sokolov Trumpelder Tschkenow ZlatoGermanyEisner Feldshuh Gryn Helfgott Kupner LuxemburgMayer Mohilewer Poupko Silberstein Spector Spiro Spitzer