Jewish toponymic surnames

Modigliani () is a Jewish Italian surname, which may refer to:

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Brodsky or Brodskyy (feminine: Brodskaya or Brodska; , ) is a toponymic surname derived from Brody, a town in Ukraine. The name is common among Ashkenazi Jews. It is also an Anglicized and Germanized form of the Czech surname Brodský. Notable people with the surname include:

The surname Epstein (also Eppstein or Epshtein) is one of the oldest Ashkenazi Jewish family names. It is probably derived from the German town of Eppstein, in Hesse; the place-name was probably derived from Gaulish apa 'water' (in the sense of a river) and German -stein 'stone' (in the sense of a hill).

Landauer is a surname, originally referring to somebody from Landau. It may refer to:

Alper is a male Turkish given name. It is composed of the two words alp and er. In Turkish, "Alp" means "stouthearted", "brave", "chivalrous", "warrior". The second, er means "soldier, male". Additionally Alper is used as an adjective for an ancient legendary Turkish commander; Alp Er Tunga who lived around 300 B.C. From the same Asian cultural roots, Alper is closely related to the name 勇士 (Japanese yuushi, Chinese yǒngshì) derived 勇 =Alp and 士 =Er words.

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Minsky (Belarusian: Мінскі; Russian: Минский) is a family name originating in Eastern Europe, related to the city of Minsk.

Pressler (or Preßler) () is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Bloch is a surname of German origin. Notable people with this surname include:

Shapira is a surname (see Shapiro), and may refer to:

Mintz is a Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname of German origin. Its etymology may be connected to the German city of Mainz. Other spelling variants are Mints, Minc and Minz.

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Wertheimer is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Lurie is often a Jewish surname, but also an Irish and English surname. The name is sometimes transliterated from/to other languages as Lurye, Luriye and Lure (from Russian), Lourié (in French).

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family name

Kovner is a surname of Yiddish origin, meaning "a person from the city of Kovne" (now Kaunas Lithuania).

Prager (variants: Praeger, Preger) is a surname, which may refer to:

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Danilovich () is a surname of Slavic origin.

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Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapir, Sapira, Spira, Spiro, Sapiro, Szapiro/Szpiro in Polish and Chapiro in French (more at "See also"), is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname.

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Blanter () is a Yiddish-language Russian-Jewish surname, literally meaning "someone from one of the places named Blanty" (Бланты).

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Pollak is an Austrian surname, and is a variant of Polak usually of Jewish Ashkenazic origin, it originates as an ethnic surname for Jews between Austria, Poland and Germany. Notable people with the surname include:

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Antokolsky (spelling variations: Antokolskiy, Antokolski) (), feminine: Antokolskaya is a Russian surname. It derives from the Polish form Antokol of the Lithuanian toponym Antakalnis, now an eldership of Vilnius, Lithuania. The notable bearers of this surname were: Mark Antokolski (1843–1902), Russian sculptor Pavel Antokolsky (1896–1978), Russian poet

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Schlesinger is a German surname (in part also Jewish) meaning "Silesian" and may refer to: Adam Schlesinger (1967–2020), American composer and musician Adolf Martin Schlesinger (1769–1838), German founder of A.M. Schlesingers Musikhandlung Alan Schlesinger (born 1960), American politician and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2006 Alice Schlesinger (born 1988), Israeli Olympic judoka Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965), American historian and professor at Harvard University Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), son of the above, American historian, soc

Sarfati (, ), variously transliterated and spelled Sarfatti, Sarphati, Serfaty, Sarfate, Sarfaty, Sarfity, Zarfati, Tsarfati, Tsarfaty, Tzarfati, Serfati, is a Sephardic Jewish surname.

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Elbogen or Ellenbogen (meaning elbow in German) may refer to:

Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz).

Bamberger is a Bavarian and southern German toponymic surname, that indicates someone from Bamberg in Bavaria. Notable people with the surname include:

Vengerov () is a Russian and Ukrainian surname derived from the word vengr (венгр), which means "Hungarian". It was given to the people who arrived from Hungary and their descendants, not necessarily of Hungarian origin. Alternative spellings include Vengerova, Vengerof, Vengerovsky, and Wengeroff. The name may refer to:

Galperin is an (Eastern) Jewish surname, derived from Heilprin / Halperin. The Russian feminine form is Galperina. Notable people with the surname include:

Vilensky/Wilensky is a Jewish surname, meaning "from Vilna".

Yampolsky, Yampolsky, Yampolskiy () is a toponymic surname common among Ukrainian Jews that resided in and around the places called Yampol in Ukraine since the times of the Russian Empire. The Lithuanized form is Jampolskis and the Polonized form is Jampolski.

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Belzer ( or ), or Beltzer , is a Yiddish surname. It derives from the adjectival form of Belz (, Galicia) or Bălți (Bessarabia), both shtetlekh. It can mean adjective form, or a member of the Belzer Hasidim.

Danziger, being related to Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Polak is the Polish noun for a Pole (also in several other Slavic languages). It is also a surname. In 2020 there were over 21,500 persons with the surname in Poland.

Deutch is a surname. Notable people with the name include: