Showing posts with label E. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2011

Eisenkot



Yiddish for iron - eisen  and a distorted form of kop (head), i.e. Ironhead. 
Perhaps the name originator was not deemed especially astute.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Eiger

From the town of Eger in Bohemia.
A famous bearer of this last name was Rabbi Akiva Eiger, or Akiva Güns, Yiddish: עקיבא אייגער, (Eisenstadt, 1761 – Poznań, 1837), an outstanding Talmudic scholar, influential halakhic decisor and foremost leader of European Jewry during the early 19th century.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Eichler

German for oak tree