Post-war surname changes among Jews in Czechoslovakia

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Post-war surname changes among Jews in Czechoslovakia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The study is focused on surname changes of Czech and Moravian Jews who survived the Holocaust and decided to rename directly after the end of WWII. The source material comprises the Fund No. 167 stored in the Czech National Archive. I analysed which surnames were most often changed, what relationship was between the original name and the new one, and what the breakdown of the applicants was by age and gender. The results of this study can be compared with the pre-war situation in the country, as well as with renaming abroad (especially in the surrounding countries which, like Czechoslovakia, have become part of the “Eastern Bloc”). In the first years after the war, a massive wave of renaming could be observed among Czechs bearing German or German-sounding surnames, too. Considering that many Jewish surnames were also of German origin, their changes fit into the overal situation in the majority society at the time. After the rise of the communist regime (1948), fear, a new wave of state anti-Semitism, and political processes in the 1950s were certainly reasons for surname change. The main goal was the effort to remove names perceived as ethnically stereotypical, which could stigmatise their bearers.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Post-war surname changes among Jews in Czechoslovakia

Popis výsledku anglicky

The study is focused on surname changes of Czech and Moravian Jews who survived the Holocaust and decided to rename directly after the end of WWII. The source material comprises the Fund No. 167 stored in the Czech National Archive. I analysed which surnames were most often changed, what relationship was between the original name and the new one, and what the breakdown of the applicants was by age and gender. The results of this study can be compared with the pre-war situation in the country, as well as with renaming abroad (especially in the surrounding countries which, like Czechoslovakia, have become part of the “Eastern Bloc”). In the first years after the war, a massive wave of renaming could be observed among Czechs bearing German or German-sounding surnames, too. Considering that many Jewish surnames were also of German origin, their changes fit into the overal situation in the majority society at the time. After the rise of the communist regime (1948), fear, a new wave of state anti-Semitism, and political processes in the 1950s were certainly reasons for surname change. The main goal was the effort to remove names perceived as ethnically stereotypical, which could stigmatise their bearers.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

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

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Onomastica Uralica

ISSN

1586-3719

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

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Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

17

Stát vydavatele periodika

HU - Maďarsko

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

223-245

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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