Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
🌳 AshkenaziPatronymic
The Berenstein Family
Write the Great BookOrigin of the name, history and genealogy of the Berenstein lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Patronyme porté par plusieurs figures juives documentées (Royaume des Pays-Bas). Cette fiche regroupe 2 figures du corpus partageant ce nom ; leurs liens généalogiques précis restent à documenter.
Geographic origin: Royaume des Pays-Bas
A book yet to be written
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/berenstein">Berenstein — Zakhor</a>Citation
Berenstein — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/berensteinVariants of the name (7)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin6
BernsztejnBernshteynBernsteynBernsztajnBursteinBernstein
Кириллица · Cyrillic1
БЕРЕНШТЕЙН
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Notable figures
- 1.
Berend Berenstein
rabbin néerlandais
- 2.
Samuel Berenstein
Dutch chief rabbi (1773-1838)
In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Berenstein.
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Notable figures of the lineage
Aryeh Leib Bernstein
אריה לייב ברנשטיין1708–1788
Samuel Berenstein
שמואל ברנשטיין1773–1838
Béla Bernstein
בלה ברנשטיין1868–1944
Berend Berenstein
1808–1893
Berenstein, Issachar Baer B. Samuel
Zvi Hirsch Bernstein
צבי הירש ברנשטיין1847–1907
Aaron Bernstein
אהרן ברנשטיין1918–1994
Ellen Bernstein
1953–2024
Leonard Bernstein
לאונרד ברנשטיין1918–1990
Diaspora regions
AllemagneÉtats-UnisPologneRoyaume des Pays-Bas
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Berenstein give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Recorded burials
Berenstein Abram
Cimetière juif de Woburn — Anshe Poland · Woburn
Berenstein Avraham Yitzhak
Cimetière juif de Białystok (rue Wschodnia) · Białystok
Berenstein Avraham Yitzhak
Cimetière juif de Białystok (rue Wschodnia) · Białystok
Berenstein Avraham Yitzhak
Cimetière juif de Varsovie (Wola) · Varsovie
Berenstein Beila Sheva
Cimetière juif de Varsovie (Wola) · Varsovie
Berenstein Claudia
Cimetière juif de Muiderberg · Muiderberg
Berenstein Fanny Jacoba
Cimetière juif de Muiderberg · Muiderberg
Berenstein Fred
Cimetière juif de Boston — Vilno · Boston
Berenstein Freida
Cimetière juif de Boston — Pultusker · Boston
Berenstein Henrietta
Cimetière juif de Woburn — Anshe Poland · Woburn
Berenstein Ida
Cimetière juif de Boston — Vilno · Boston
Berenstein Jette Alexander
Cimetière juif de Muiderberg · Muiderberg
Bibliography
- A. Beider ; L. Menk, Dictionnaires des patronymes juifs d'Europe de l'Est (Beider : Empire russe 2008, Royaume de Pologne 1996, Galicie 2004) et judéo-allemands (Menk 2005), Avotaynu
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