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These are the names
Aaron Demsky, professor emeritus of Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, has dedicated his professional life to the study of Jewish names.
A JEW in Iraqi Kurdistan, 1930s. Demsky notes that Jews from such places as Kurdistan, Yemen and India did not have hereditary family names at all until they immigrated to Israel.
(photo credit:
Wikimedia Commons
)
By
CARL HOFFMAN
OCTOBER 17, 2019 15:47
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