תיאור הספר

RARE comprehensive dictionary of over 65000 Jewish family names, the most complete of its kind in English, providing also variant spellings in different languages used by Jews in the course of the long history in diaspora, and modifications, such as equivalents, translations, truncations and amplifications, and the original forms of the names in the original Hebrew, Arabic-Farsi, Cyrillic and Roman letters. The dictionary contains nearly all Jewish groups: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, Oriental and modern Israeli. For the historical record, currently used family names are included even when their origins cannot be established. 260x185mm. XLIV+882 pages. Blue Hardcover with silver lettering on front cover and spine. Cover and cover corners rubbed. Spine edges bumped/wrinkled. Pen underlining near text on introduction pages XIII-XIV. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare and unique encyclopedic dictionary of almost all demonstrably Jewish (Ashkenazic and Sephardic) names is in good condition.