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Kos surname

Posted: 5 Mar 2010 5:05PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Kos
I have long suspected that my mother's side of the family have Jewish ancestry. So the other day I was on a Jewish website learning Hebrew. I came to the Hebrew word for glass, the word is kos. I was shocked, my paternal grandmother's maiden was Kos she was born in Slovenia in 1898. But she was Catholic, but after reading what the Catholic church did to the Jewish population in Europe in the middle ages. I would assume that mu grandmother's ancestors where forced to convert, like so many other Jewish people. What do you think? Thank you for your help. Allan Dane

Re: Kos surname

Posted: 6 Mar 2010 9:08PM GMT
Classification: Query
posisble but hard to prove. check jewish history at that time period. I believe that was a time of pogroms in the pale of settlement but do not think that included slovenia. conversions were well known any time but especially in the spanish inquisition and expellsuion to p ortugal.
second thought-check slovenia jewish history.

Re: Kos surname

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 11:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
this is coincidental the same word. in Slovenia Kos means blackbird and think no connection to the jewish word. :o)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vranikamandelbrot/2922418927/
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2008/...

Re: Kos surname

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 7:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
do you know of any unusual rituals done on a fri eve or a sat ? any yiddish words spoken etc if not ,hard to prove otherwise . good luck

Re: Kos surname

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 10:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
slovenian names A-Z: http://www.rodoslovje.com/priimki/K/Korot-Kosch.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Slovenia
gravesearch Ljubljana/ Slovenia - only graves of central-cemetery Žale opened 1906 and still in use - 5 persons with Dane-lastname: http://grobovi.zale.si/index.aspx?Lang=ENG
Zale cemetery: Zale Pod Hmeljniki 2, Ljubljana
info@zale.si
"1.5 meters high yew hedge on three sides and a wall on the fourth sets it off from the rest of the municipal cemetery. The small rectangular plot has a 3-4 meter section of hedge down, following an accidental leaf fire in 1995. Unlocked iron gates with Stars of David along with Hebrew and Slovenian wording indicates the Jewish cemetery, the only individual cemetery separated by religion from the main part. 24 marked Jewish graves, some for more than one person, are arranged around the perimeter of the section. Stones are simple with only a name and date of death. One tomb marks an unidentified Jewish WWII victim. Jews in mixed marriages are buried in the main part of the cemetery with their families. Book includes pictures. Source: Jewish Monuments in Slovenia. Jewish Heritage Research Center: November 1996 and The US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. Gruber, Ruth Ellen und Samuel D."
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http://www.europeanjewishfund.org/index.php/member_communiti...

Re: Kos surname

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 11:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
an adress for a Brigita Dane in Trzin:
http://www.itis.si/ARTISTA-BRIGITA-DANE?6063403

Re: Kos surname

Posted: 1 Oct 2012 10:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
The Religion of my Kos Family was Catholic while in Bohemia but most did not follow that path when they came to Washington Co., IA in 1865.

Re: Kos surname

Posted: 1 Oct 2012 10:18PM GMT
Classification: Query
The Religion of my Kos Family was Catholic while in Bohemia but most did not follow that path when they came to Washington Co., IA in 1865.
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