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"Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim" <Jdibrahim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1167315478.043350.151890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 2. What does the name Einstein mean?
I hope this can help:
"Most Jews-I am confining myself to a specific area in or near
Swabia-did not have family names until they were mandated, in Austria in
1787, in Bavaria in 1813, and in other places around the turn of the
century. For a thorough exploration of onomastics relevant to the area,
there is Die Familiennamen der Juden by Erwin Manuel Dreifuss (1927). He
and others explore the custom of patronymics and informal names, often
pointing to the place or area of origin. Typical toponyms are the
well-documented Oppenheim(er)s in Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Worms, whose
roots probably go to Oppenheim on the Rhine where there was a well-known
Jewish community. Similarly the Guggenheims, encountered from Buchau to
Gailingen but especially in Endingen and Lengnau in Switzerland,
probably came south from Jugenheim on the Rhine. Guggenheim(er)s show up
several times in Appendix I. Heilbronn and Ulm are just two examples of
imperial cities which expelled their Jewish residents in the Middle
Ages. Families known as Heilbronner, Halperin, Ulmer, and Ullman [plus
variations in spelling] even today echo this distant origin, often so
distant that it offers no genealogical clues worth pursuing. Spelling
was uncertain and there seems to have been little distinction between
Heilbronn and Heilbronner, Guggenheim and Guggenheimer, or Binswang and
Binswanger. I found a Neuburger ancestor in Buchau listed as Neiburger,
and Albert Einstein's ancestors almost certainly go back to a Moises
Ainstein shown on the same Buchau 1693 tax list. [Taenzer mentions Rabbi
Ainstein in Hohenems]. Adler [see Bibliography] says Moises arrived
about 1683 from Gundelfingen which is near Burgau; Sauer [Gemeinden,
p.31] shows Baruch Moses Ainstein [presumably Moises' father] as having
been admitted in 1665, coming from Wangen am Untersee [Lower Lake
Constance] whose migrants, in turn, also came partly from the Burgau
area."
http://www.jm-hohenems.at/mat/702_AFJMH_Newsletter_4_1.pdf
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