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In article <WmZkh.93911$Fk1.489899@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "heliogabalus"
<forbidden@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> "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.
Strange enough, most Jews in the Netherlands had family names, while
many Dutch did have not, until it was mandated. Here they were mandated
under Napoleontic regime, and that has lead to quite a few pretty
strange family names. Some simply due to ridicule with the new rule
("Naaktgeboren", i.e. "born naked"), others due to customs that did
not fit with the new rule ("Vennegoor of Hesseling", "Olde Riekerink").
The study of those surnames is quite interesting.
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dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131
home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/
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