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Dik T. Winter wrote:
> 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"),
Ridicule, or piety? (Cf. Job 1:21 "Naakt ben ik uit mijner moeders buik
gekomen, en naakt zal ik daarhenen wederkeren." [Statenvertaling]).
Or possibly both?
> 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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