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heliogabalus wrote:
> "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
Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. This indeed helps.
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