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Trachtenberg (
Russian/
Ukrainian: Трахтенберг,
Yiddish: טראַכֿטנבערג;
Hebrew: טרכטנברג, is a
surname of several notable people, typically an
Ashkenazi Jewish surname, especially
Bessarabian and
Ukrainian. Sometimes the name is transliterated to Trachtenburg, whilst Jews from Argentina often spell the name Trajtenberg according to Spanish spelling norms. Some more recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union have had the name transliterated as Trakhtenberg when entering the US.
Trachtenberg, literally "a mountain of costumes" (in
German), or "a mountain of thoughts" (in
Yiddish),[1] is actually the former German name of a town in
Silesia now called by the Polish name
Żmigród, where Jews were a significant part of the population until the
Second World War and the
Holocaust. Jews who bear this name are usually descendants of families who moved from Trachtenburg, Silesia, to another place in central or eastern Europe (and then elsewhere, later on), and became known in their new communities by their former place of residence.
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