Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania / / Alexander Avram.
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...
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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
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) :; 6 maps |
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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