Show JC w th ish Surn surname arnes the american A rican hebrew says that jewish surnames data only from 1812 1912 when Ilar hardenburg denburg the Au austrian stirlan devised a specious and ingenious form of tyranny by which to afflict tho the jews since they had never had surnames and had preferred to remain without them in the thousands of years of their existence Ilar hardenburg denburg saw a new means whereby to inflict discomfort upon the jews in this wholesale naming the two most com mon sources of names were the bible bibla and the occupation of the person |