Eliahu or Eliyahu is a masculine Hebrew given name and surname of biblical origin. It means "My God is Yahweh" and derives from the prophet Elijah who, according to the Bible, lived during the reign of King Ahab.
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.
Breuer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Feinstein, Finestein or anglicized as Finestone, meaning "fine stone", that is gemstone, is a compound surname of German and Yiddish origin, similar to names like Goldstein or Rubinstein which is relatively wide spread among Ashkenazi Jews. It may refer to:
Shlomo or Szlomo is the English form of שְׁלֹמֹה, the Hebrew name of the Israelite King Solomon. It is a popular name among Jews, especially in the State of Israel.
Moses is a surname derived from the Biblical Moses. It can be of either Jewish, Welsh, or English origin. The Hebrew form of the name, Moshe, is probably of Egyptian origin, from a short form of any of various ancient Egyptian personal names, such as Ramesses and Tutmose, meaning "conceived by ". The Arabic form of the name is Musa. However, very early in its history it acquired a folk etymology, being taken as a derivative of the Hebrew root verb mšh, "to draw (something from the water", a reference to the story of the infant Moses being discovered among the bulrushes by Pharaoh's daughter. As a Welsh family name, it was adopted among Dissenter families in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a North American family name, it has been an anglicization of foreign forms of the name, such as Moise, Moshe, or Mozes.
Abraham is a given name of Hebrew background, originating with the Biblical patriarch ; the father of the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Berkowicz is a Polish surname. There is a Polish noble family under this surname, of Nieczuja coat of arms. Alternative spelling: Berkowitz, Berkovitz, Berkowits, Berkovits, Berkovich, Bercowitz, Berkovic.
Joel or Yoel is a male given name derived from יוֹאֵל Standard Hebrew, Yoʾel, Tiberian Hebrew, or Yôʾēl, meaning "Yahu is god", "YHWH is God", or the modern translation "Yahweh is God". Joel as a given name appears in the Hebrew Bible.
Schreiber is a German surname meaning "scribe" or "writer"; often compared to English Clark or Clerk. Notable people with the name include:
Roth is an English, German, or Jewish origin surname. There are seven theories on its origin:
- The spilling of blood from the warrior class of ancient Germanic soldiers;
- Ethnic name for an Anglo-Saxon, derived from rot, referencing red-haired people;
- Topographical name, derived from rod, meaning a dweller in such a location;
- Derivative from hroth ;
- Local name for 18th-century Ashkenazi refugees to Germany;
- Derivative from roe in the ancient Danish language to signify (of) a king;
- Of the red colour of clay, as in pottery (German).
Moses, Moishe, Moshe, Musa (Arabic:موسی), or Movses is a male given name, after the biblical figure Moses.
Meir is a Jewish male given name and an occasional surname. It means "one who shines". It is often Germanized as Maier, Mayer, Mayr, Meier, Meyer, Meijer, Italianized as Miagro, or Anglicized as Mayer, Meyer, or Myer. Notable people with the name include:
Zvi is a Jewish masculine given name. Notable people with this name include:
Weinberg is a German and Jewish-Ashkenazi surname which means vineyard in German. Spellings in other languages include Wainberg, Vainberg, Vaynberg, Вайнберг and Wajnberg.
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.
Auerbach and Averbuch and Aberbach is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow-brook. Another variant is Aberbach. Sometimes it is modified to Auerbacher, meaning someone coming from a town or village called Auerbach. Notable people with this surname include the following:
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