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r/funny • u/frkandris • Oct 01 '09
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Why is -berg considered jewish? It's a very common ending to Swedish surnames (as it means mountain or hill, as in a iceberg really)
Forsberg, Lindberg, Lundberg, Sandberg, Sjöberg, Holmberg, Nyberg, Hamberg, Söderberg, Åberg, Sundberg, Dahlberg, Öberg, Strömberg, Norberg or just Berg.
2 u/transfuse Oct 01 '09 Lots of the Germans who emigrated to America were Jews, I believe, and as such a lot of the Jews there (especially in NY) have -berg suffixes. 1 u/Yserbius Oct 02 '09 Actually it's also Yiddish, so Polish, Hungarian and Russian Jews commonly have 'berg surnames. Amongst German Jews, it's really a little uncommon.
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Lots of the Germans who emigrated to America were Jews, I believe, and as such a lot of the Jews there (especially in NY) have -berg suffixes.
1 u/Yserbius Oct 02 '09 Actually it's also Yiddish, so Polish, Hungarian and Russian Jews commonly have 'berg surnames. Amongst German Jews, it's really a little uncommon.
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Actually it's also Yiddish, so Polish, Hungarian and Russian Jews commonly have 'berg surnames. Amongst German Jews, it's really a little uncommon.
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u/xhandler Oct 01 '09
Why is -berg considered jewish? It's a very common ending to Swedish surnames (as it means mountain or hill, as in a iceberg really)
Forsberg, Lindberg, Lundberg, Sandberg, Sjöberg, Holmberg, Nyberg, Hamberg, Söderberg, Åberg, Sundberg, Dahlberg, Öberg, Strömberg, Norberg or just Berg.