When Jacob Weiss was born on 14 March 1863, in Artsyz, Akkerman, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, his father, Christian Weiss, was 29 and his mother, Louisa Loffelbein, was 26. He married Rosine Malke in 1888, in Bessarabia, Russian Empire. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 17 July 1939, in Bessarabia, Russian Empire, at the age of 76.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Erwin, Hans, Gerhard, Fritz, Manfred, Egon, Armin, Arno, Gunther, Heinz. Jewish Chaim, Moshe, Emanuel, Aron, Meyer, Mendel, Hyman, Isadore, Zvi, Shlomo.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with white hair or a remarkably pale complexion, from Middle High German wīz, German weiss ‘white’. This surname is also found in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia, often as a German translation of a corresponding Slavic surnames, e.g. Slovenian Belec and Bele (see Belle ). It is also found in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), Denmark, and the Netherlands.
German: variant of Weis .
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