Jewish Surname Changes (Sampling of Prague Birth Registries 1867–1918)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/7/4/77" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/7/4/77</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7040077" target="_blank" >10.3390/genealogy7040077</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Jewish Surname Changes (Sampling of Prague Birth Registries 1867–1918)

Original language description

The study focuses on changes of surnames of Czech and Moravian Jews. The changes are tracked until the start of the German occupation in 1939. The source material is comprised of Jewish birth registers from 1867 to 1918 from Prague, as this was the most populous Jewish community of the region. These records are part of fund No. 167 stored in the Czech National Archive. More than 17,000 Jewish children were born in Prague during this period and only 350 of them changed their surname. Surnames were mostly changed by young men under the age of 30. A large wave of renaming occurred mainly at the beginning of the 1920s shortly after the formation of Czechoslovakia (1918). Renaming was part of the assimilation process but was not connected to conversion to Christianity. The main goal was the effort to remove names perceived as ethnically stereotypical, which could stigmatize their bearers (e.g., Kohn, Löwy, Abeles, Taussig, Goldstein etc.). Characteristic of the new surnames was the effort to preserve the same initial letter from the original surname. The phenomenon is compared with the situation in neighboring countries (Germany, Hungary and Poland).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Genealogy

ISSN

2313-5778

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

77

UT code for WoS article

001135978000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85180679098