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Subject: Re: CUBA-D Digest V99 #142
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 08:11:04 EST

In a message dated 11/2/99 6:30:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

<< What I would like to know is whether it s true that all "Spanish" surnames
that end in EZ are not only Patrinomic but also Jewish in origen. The tale
goes that during the inquizition
(sp?) Spanish Jews (Sepharditas) were forced to convert or flee the
country. Suppsedly, many of these Jewish families simply converted the
patrimonial possesive prefix DE into a suffix EZ. Thus, when the inquisitors
came looking for
jews by the name of De Hernando, De Fernando, De Gonzalo...they were told
that the family in question was gone. The EZ served as a means for Jewish
families to identify one another. Whether this story is act however, i have
been
unable to prove.
>>

Not true! Patronimic names were in existence long before the Inquisition
came into being. Or even before the expulsion of the Jews. Although, I am
sure that some Jewish families did use them.

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