Margolis is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגלית (Israeli Hebrew [maɹgalit]), meaning 'pearl'. Notable people with the surname include:
Bernstein is a common surname in the German language, meaning "amber". The name is used by both Germans and Jews, although it is most common among people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. The German pronunciation is, but in English, it is pronounced either as or.
Hillel is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:
Friedman, Friedmann, and Freedman are surnames of German origin, and from the 17th century were also adopted by Ashkenazi Jews. It is the 9th most common surname in Israel and most common exclusively Ashkenazi name. They may refer to:
Bloch is a surname of German origin. Notable people with this surname include:
Wertheimer is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The surname Epstein is one of the oldest Ashkenazi Jewish family names. It is probably derived from the German town of Eppstein, in Hesse; the place-name was probably derived from Gaulish apa and German -stein.
Schwartz is a last name of German/Yiddish (German-Jewish) origin, meaning "black". It was originally a nickname for someone with black hair or a dark complexion. It may refer to:
Rosen is a surname of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, the name deriving from the German word for roses. Notable people with this surname include:
Rabinovich or Rabinovitch, is a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "son of the rabbi". The Polish/Lithuanian equivalents are Rabinowitz or Rabinowicz.
Margulies is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגליות, meaning 'pearls'. Notable people with the surname include:
Simon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include the following.
Berman is a surname that may be derived from the German and Yiddish phrase בער מאַן or from the Dutch Beerman, meaning the same. Notable people with the surname include:
Kaplan is a surname that is of ultimately Latin origins. There is also a historically unrelated surname in Turkey.
The German surname Hecht comes from house shields. In Yiddish der hekht means spear, arms. In modern German Der Hecht is the fish known in English as a pike.
Margolies is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגליות (Israeli Hebrew, meaning 'pearls'. Notable people with the surname include:
Levy or Lévy is a surname generally of Hebrew origin. It is a transliteration of the Hebrew לוי meaning "joining". Another spelling of the surname—among multiple other spellings—is Levi or Lévi.
Pincus or Pinkus is a surname of Jewish origin, derived from the given name Pinkus, which in turn originates with the Biblical Hebrew male personal name Pinechas or Phinehas. The name may refer to:
Pearl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Zimmerman is a surname variant of the German Zimmermann, meaning "carpenter". The modern German terms for carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used. It is also commonly associated with Ashkenazi Jews.
Blau is a German surname meaning "blue". This may have referred to the pale skin, the eyes, or the clothes of the original bearer of the name or the surname may be metonymic, e.g. referring to a dyer or someone who produced bluing in a mill. "Blau" is most commonly an ornamental Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname. Notable people with the surname include: