The Ruben Name Study has German_Roots and maybe Jewish_Roots too?

Question

This Germany Family goes  back centuries in Germany and maybe have Jewish Roots too!

Answer 1

In my family, Dora Ruben was most definitely Jewish. I think it's a variation of Rubin, which is very common among Jews. It may also be a variation on Rubinstein, as in the famous Jewish pianist, Arthur Rubinstein.

I was not aware that the name occurred in Germany among non-Jews!

Comments

Natalie, Sharon, and many others:  Here are several research sources for those with German or Jewish sounding surnames: (They're only a start.)

List of Surnames in Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames - Avotaynu

www.avotaynu.com/books/MenkNames.htm

Surnames in Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames. Aach • Aal • Aale • Aaron • Aaronheim • Aarons • Aaronsohn • Abarbanel • Abarbanel Sousa • Abarbanell ...

Ashkenazi names: The etymology of the most common Jewish ...

www.slate.com/.../ashkenazi_names_the_etymology_of_the_most_common_jewish_s...

Jan 8, 2014 - Ashkenazic Jews were among the last Europeans to take family names. Some German-speaking Jews took last names as early as the 17th ...

Category:Jewish surnames - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jewish_surnames

Pages in category "Jewish surnames". The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,272 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).

Jewish surname - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_surname

But there are others that are more distinctively Jewish: Parnass, Gabbay, Singer, Cantor, Voorsanger, Chazan, Cantarini, from the synagogue officials who were so called; Shochet, Schaechter, Schechter, from the ritual slaughterer (also Schub or Shub: Hebrew acronym for 'shochet u-bodek'/ritual slaughterer and kosher ...

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