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lesschumras
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edarhurst, can you cite the mesorah for this? You are talking about a Gentile last name. For thousands of yers Jews had no last names, just mosehe ben Avraham or Leah bas Moshe. Marraige didn’t have any effect.

Jews didn’t take last names until the last 200 years.