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These surnames are commonly Jewish (not always, but often), but I dont know why. What's the linguistic basis for this? They don't sound like a Hebrew, Greek, or Arabic surnames which you would expect from someone descended from people in the Levant. They sound Germanic to me. Was it one of those "Ok everybody, we need last names, if you're feeling lazy just pick a surname based on your industry. The Jews are big in the stonework industry, so there ya go"?

It'd be like meeting a demographic claiming to be descended from Nigerians with the surnames "Erikson" and "Bjork".

These surnames are commonly Jewish (not always, but often), but I dont know why. What's the linguistic basis for this? They don't sound like a Hebrew, Greek, or Arabic surnames which you would expect from someone descended from people in the Levant. They sound Germanic to me. Was it one of those "Ok everybody, we need last names, if you're feeling lazy just pick a surname based on your industry. The Jews are big in the stonework industry, so there ya go"? It'd be like meeting a demographic claiming to be descended from Nigerians with the surnames "Erikson" and "Bjork".

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That's how they hide. When they move into a new nation, they adapt their surnames to sound like locals.

For example, in Croatia, they directly replaced their jewish surnames with local preexisting surnames, so you can't ID them by surname alone unless they are "foreign" jews. They did this in a lot of other European countries too, and it was not done by intermarriage, just direct surname theft.