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This Wikipedia article gives the background on the development of Jewish surnames.
The range of sources for such names includes:
the place from which the family came
translation of the Hebrew patronymic
the Austrian emperor Joseph the second issued a decree called Das
Patent über die Judennamen which compelled the Jews to adopt German
surnames.
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