Pleasant are their names
Subtitle: Jewish names in the Sephardi diaspora
By: edited by Aaron Demsky.
Contributors: Demsky, Aaron.
Publisher: University Press of Maryland
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bethesda, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781934309247
Subjects: Names, Personal -- Jewish; Sephardim -- Europe, Western; Sephardim -- Middle East
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Aaron Demsky; title: The Sephardim : an historical and cultural overview from 1492 to the present / Moises Orfali; title: The etymology of Sephardi surnames : achievements and perspectives / Alexander Beider; title: The Jews of Bulgaria : their surnames as a mirror of their history / Mathilde A. Tagger; title: The names of the Jews of Monastir (Bitola), Macedonia / Shlomo Alboher; title: Names, surnames, and nicknames of Nabeul, Tunisia / Victor Hayoun; title: The use of Hebrew first names in Sephardi communities / Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald; title: Bienvenida "blessed be her who comes" and Azebuena "does good deeds" : name-giving patterns for girls and women in the Judeo-Spanish diaspora (Salonika 1492-1943) / Gila Hadar; title: Personal names of Izmir Jews in modern times / Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky; title: Personal names in Judeo-Spanish proverbs from northern Morocco (Hakitia) / Yaakov Bentolila and Tamar Alexander; title: Visitational dreams and naming practices among Moroccan Jews in Israel / Henry Abramovitch and Yoram Bilu.