Jewish Names
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Basic Information:
Sources:
Academy of St. Gabriel: Jewish Names - https://s-gabriel.org/names/jewish.shtml
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/
Julie Stampnitzky:
- Medieval Jewish Names Research - https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juetta/main.html
- Database of Medieval Jewish Names - https://web.archive.org/web/20021014232945/http://yucs.org/~jules/names/main.html
- Names of Jewish Men, 6th to 11th Centuries - https://web.archive.org/web/20021002074818/http://www.yucs.org/~jules/names/sixth.html
- Names from Hebrew Chronicles of the 10th to 13th Centuries - https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juetta/masc/avraham.html
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.
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
WARNING: Do not cite this page as a reference. This page is on this wiki to make the content "searchable" and easier to find. If you find the information you seek here, go to the original sources (generally linked) to verify the information and use them for your documentation. Contact the editor-in-chief, Sofya la Rus, if there are copyright concerns or other issues. sofya at calontiri dot info