Jewish Names

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Sources:

Academy of St. Gabriel - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/
Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
Laurel Name Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/names.html

Alexander Beider, A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given names.

Alexander Beider, _Jewish Surnames in Prague (15th - 18th Centuries)_, Avotaynu, Teaneck, NY, 1995, ISBN 0962637351, paper.

Bukharan Jews in Encyclopaedia Iranica - [[1]]

Inscriptions of Israel / Palestine - http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/ - inscriptions (with English translations) of Israel/Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE).

Jewish Names in Ottoman Court Records (16th C Jerusalem) - http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/Jerusalem/

"Jewish Women's Names in 13th to 15th Century Navarre" http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juetta/navarra.html

Sefaria: A library of Jewish texts, ancient, medieval, and modern, available online in Hebrew and English translation. https://www.sefaria.org/

SENA Appendix A: Patterns That Do Not Need Further Documentation...

http://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#AppendixA (as of 12 October 2013)

Jewish

	Double Given Names	Locative	Patronymic	Other relationship	Descriptive/Occupational	Dictus	Double Bynames	Order
Hebrew	No		Marked; multi-generational	Tribe name (men only), like ha Levi	ha [noun], feminized for women		Multi-generation patronymic	given+byname given+pat+pat
Vernacular		(see notes)	(see notes)		(see notes)		Multi-generation patronymic	given+byname

Notes:

Jews lived in a location where a vernacular was spoken (German, Arabic, etc.) Men generally had a Hebrew language name and a vernacular name. The vernacular name may be the equivalent of their Hebrew name or an unrelated vernacular name. Women generally had vernacular names only (often the same as local naming pool).

Hebrew: Patronymic bynames are formed using ben B "son of B," and bat B (Sephardic) or basB (Ashkenazic) "daughter of B"

Vernacular: Vernacular bynames often follow the Hebrew forms (so mostly patronymic), but are generally written following the standards for the local vernacular. Occasionally, the particles are transliterated from the Hebrew (e.g., "N filius B ben C" in a Latin document). Other kinds of bynames (especially locative bynames and the byname meaning "Jew" in the vernacular) are found as well.

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SENA Appendix C: Regional Naming Groups and Their Mixes

http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/sena.html#AppendixC

Regional Groups:	By Time Period:	Languages Included In This Group:	Can Be Combined With Groups:
Jewish	550-1100	Hebrew, Yiddish, etc.	Special: Jewish names documented from location X are registerable with (1) other names documented from the languages for that language group and (2) with other Jewish names documented from other parts of Europe
	1100-1600	Hebrew, Yiddish, etc.	Special: Jewish names documented from location X are registerable with (1) other names documented from the languages for that language group and (2) with other Jewish names documented from other parts of Europe

Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)

Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Collected Named Precedents: Jewish, Hebrew, Yiddish - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/JewishHebrewYiddish.html

From the <month> <year> LoAR: