In Poland and further east toponymic surnames are a lot common among gentiles than among Jews.
In Spain all individuals surnamed Toledo, Segovia, Burgos, Rovira are descendants of converso families. RT ==== http://turovsky.org Feci quod potui. Faciant meliora potentes. > On Jan 7, 2020, at 7:06 AM, Joachim Lüdtke <jo.lued...@t-online.de> wrote: > > Not only among Jews, Roman! If every Oesterreicher, Frankfurter or > what-you-have would be Jewish, there would be no problem for any small > Kehillah anywhere here to find a Minjan for the Service … > > > Joachim > > -----Original-Nachricht----- > Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Milan's name > Datum: 2020-01-07T11:18:18+0100 > Von: "r.turov...@gmail.com" <r.turov...@gmail.com> > An: "Tristan von Neumann" <tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> > > Toponymical surnames are prevalent among Jews: Toledo, Rovira, Palma and > Palmieri, Venezia etc etc. > RT > > ==== > http://turovsky.org > Feci quod potui. Faciant meliora potentes. > >>> On Jan 6, 2020, at 8:48 AM, Tristan von Neumann <tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 06.01.20 05:50, howard posner wrote: >>> And wouldn’t a Milanese refer to the city as Milano? >>> >> >> I guess not. Back then it seems that all city names were somehow >> transformed into the other languages. >> >> Even today it's probably considered fancy if you call it like the >> natives, especially for German cities. >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKGoVefhtMQ >> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > >
