[Ansteorra] RE: Need help with a Period Hebrew name??

[C. L. Ward]

>I have a gentle in the Fray that would like to
>take a period Hebrew name.  The newcomer is
>uncertain of the needed structure for such names
>and is uncertain what is required for the
>documentation of such names?
>
>Can a herald please contact me, so that I can
>send the necessary information on to this newcomer?

The Academy of St. Gabriel has the following articles available that should
help:

Jewish Naming Conventions in Angevin England, by Eleazar ha-Levi.
http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/jewish.html
A discussion of names for English Jews frgm 1070-1290. Well over a hundred
examples are included.

Jewish Names from the 1292 Census of Paris by Scott Catledge (Colm Dubh).
http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/paris.html#jewish
A list of about 60 Jewish names extracted from the 1292 census of Paris.

Medieval Spanish Jewish Names of the 13th and 14th Centuries, by Julia Smith
(Juliana de Luna).
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/iberian-jewish/
About 60 Iberian Jewish names recorded in Castilian during the 13th and 14th
cent uries.

Bibliography for Jewish Names and Armory
http://www.s-gabriel.org/docs/jewish.html

The client should look over these as a starting point.  The Academy also has
a number of reports that would be useful as well.  To do this, go to ? and
box that says "Text to Search For" put in:

Jewish Hebrew Judaic

Then change the box labeled "Boolean" to "OR" and hit search.  The search
takes a fairly long time to load, but be patient as it will turn up a bunch
of reports concerning useful names.

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Then change the

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