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Sunday, June 11 • 6:15pm - 7:00pm
Traditional Ashkenazi given names

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The corpus of traditional Ashkenazi given names underwent major changes during the second millennium CE. For example, a number of Hebrew names started to be used. The study of Ashkenazi given names helps answer major questions to do with Jewish social history and establishes directions of migrations of Ashkenazi Jews.
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Alexander Beider

Dr Alexander Beider is an expert in Jewish etymology and linguistics, with a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a PhD in Jewish Studies from the Sorbonne. He is the author of a set of reference books in the domain of Jewish historico-linguistic... Read More →

Sunday June 11, 2017 6:15pm - 7:00pm AEST
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  Memory & history, Presentation

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