Foreword

Is there Jewish surnames ?

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

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

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

The use of alternative names by Jewish families

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

Surnames arbitrarily given.

A few books and websites to go further

Décret de 1808 concernant les noms de famille des Juifs.

The database of Avotaynu contains a huge number of names

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

Equivalence of Jewish given names in Alsace, Switzerland and Bade

Recherche sur le patronyme ARON et ses variantes dans plusieurs sources