delirium clemens

“Ashkenazic Jews were among the last Europeans to take family names. Some German-speaking Jews took last names as early as the 17^th century, but the overwhelming majority lived in Eastern Europe and did not take last names until compelled to do so. The process began in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1787 and ended in Czarist Russia in 1844.” >text (c) SLATE, 2014
Map by Richard Andree: the Jews of Central Europe, 1881.

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