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Cercle de Généalogie Juive

Cercle de Généalogie Juive

The first Jewish Genealogy Society in France

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  1. Ressources

Foreword

Is there Jewish surnames ?
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Patronymic names

For a very long time, the Jews did not have any family name and were referred to by their father's given name
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Geographical Names

Jews have been sometimes referred to by the name of the country, the province, the city, the village or the hamlet they come from..
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Kinui

A few words about kinnuim (plural of kinnui), a very interesting Jewish peculiarity.

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Calques, Kinnuim and Couplets

The use of alternative names by Jewish families
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Professional names

There are relatively few specifically Jewish trade names which became surnames.

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Surnames arbitrarily given

Surnames arbitrarily given.
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references

A few books and websites to go further
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Décret de Bayonne

Décret de 1808 concernant les noms de famille des Juifs.

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Avotaynu Jewish names

The database of Avotaynu contains a huge number of names
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Jewish given names

Our member Peter STEIN built a table of correspondence between different given names
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given name equivalences

Equivalence of Jewish given names in Alsace, Switzerland and Bade
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Les ARON dans toute la France

Recherche sur le patronyme ARON et ses variantes dans plusieurs sources

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