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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378092%3A_____%2F23%3A00584588" target="_blank" >RIV/68378092:_____/23:00584588 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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).

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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).

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Genealogy

ISSN

2313-5778

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

7

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

CH - Švýcarská konfederace

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

77

Kód UT WoS článku

001135978000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85180679098