“Ashkenazic Jews were among the last Europeans to take family names. Some German-speaking Jews took last names as early as the 17th 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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Jewish Surnames Explained
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Ashkenazim, Austria-Hungary, Central Europe, Jews, Russia, surnames on 5 January 2014 by delclem“How History Broke Us”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, anti-Semitism, Belarus, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, family history, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, pogroms on 7 December 2013 by delclem
“How to tell the story of the rise and destruction of European Jews? Perhaps the most compelling way is through family history, as David Laskin does in his fascinating new book.” >review & photo (c) THE DAILY BEAST, 2013
It’s not always ‘us versus them’…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1941, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Holocaust, Jews, Muslims, Sarajevo, Ustasha, veil on 12 November 2013 by delclem
Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her veil on the
streets of Sarajevo in 1941. Photo (c) imgur.com, 2013
The Strange Power of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Ashkenasim, Eastern Europe, Fiddler in the roof, Jews, Russia, Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish on 2 November 2013 by delclem
“What is it about Sholem Aleichem’s stories of a poor milkman in the shtetl that has audiences bewitched for nearly 50 years after the smash musical debuted on Broadway? The new cultural history of Fiddler.” >text (c) The Daily Beast 2013
The Serbian Chetniks & the Jews
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chetniks, history, Holocaust, Jews, Marko Attila Hoare, Muslims, Serbia, World War II on 15 May 2013 by delclem
British historian Marco Attila Hoare explores the ugly sides of World War Two & the Holocaust in the Balkans: the hidden agenda of local nationalism/s. >text (c) KOSOVO-NEWS 2013
“Today’s Jewish Life In Vienna”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, minorities, Vienna on 15 March 2013 by delclem
“A snapshot in time: Vienna Today 2012 documents a thriving community.”
>full text (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
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