Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania / / Alexander Avram.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Avram, Alexander,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies: Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.) :; 6 maps

Linguistic and semantic features in names—and surnames in particular—reveal evidence of historical phenomena, such as migrations, occupational structure, and acculturation. In this book, Alexander Avram assembles and analyzes a corpus of more than 28,000 surnames, including phonetic and graphic vari...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Charts, Maps, and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Historical Background
• Chapter 2. Methodological Approach
• Chapter 3. Antiquity of Early Jewish Settlement Through the Prism of Surnames
• Chapter 4. Demographic Aspects: Rural and Urban Settlement; Internal Migrations
• Chapter 5. Socio- economic Profile of the Jewish Population
• Chapter 6. Jewish Identity as Reflected in Romanian Surnames: From Traditional Separation to Integration
• Chapter 7. The Romanian Authorities’ Attitude: From Invited Settlers to Undesired Subjects
• Chapter 8. A Case Study: Jewish Intellectuals and Romanian and Romanized Surnames
• Chapter 9. A Different Group: The Sephardim in the Old Kingdom
• General Conclusions
• Appendix 1. List of Jewish Intellectuals and Artists Active in Romania Prior to WWII
• Appendix 2. List of Surnames Used by Sephardic Jews in the Kingdom of Romania
• Appendix 3. A Dictionary of Jewish Romanian and Romanized Surnames
• Glossary
• Bibliography