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Norfolk / Re: Salkind Family
« on: Saturday 16 April 11 14:17 BST (UK) »
After months of staring at the computer and trying to find the origin of the name Salkind, I have a suggestion. There is a place in the Ukraine called Stary Krym. It is Russian for Old Crimean but the old name for it is Solkhat. Interesting, because there is a record in Jewish Gen site, for one family called Sohlkind living in Hungary. At first, I thought the name Salkind was of German origin due to the sound and spelling, but I suppose it is possible that in Austro-hungarian empire, it could have also become "Prussianized." There were alot of Jews resettled in Lithuania from the Crimea, having been captured in about 1300 AD. They were Karaims. Sometimes spelled qarait. (Not the Egyptian Karaite.) These people were not Rabbinical Jews and were more secular.
The name qaraim means "reader". The name Salkind is often spelled with "Z" as in Zalkind, especially in the Ukraine and there are many records of them in cemeteries there. I know that my mother used to say that Philip used to insist that the name was pronounced as "salt," not as in "sally" and the "kind was pronounced as "kaynd," not as in "kindred." She knew so much about them that I wondered why,
and I am now firmly of the belief that she was a Salkind.So many "Jewish traits in her and myself, I find I am quite glad. I am trying to find the proof that I need. x Jo of Carmarthen.
The name qaraim means "reader". The name Salkind is often spelled with "Z" as in Zalkind, especially in the Ukraine and there are many records of them in cemeteries there. I know that my mother used to say that Philip used to insist that the name was pronounced as "salt," not as in "sally" and the "kind was pronounced as "kaynd," not as in "kindred." She knew so much about them that I wondered why,
and I am now firmly of the belief that she was a Salkind.So many "Jewish traits in her and myself, I find I am quite glad. I am trying to find the proof that I need. x Jo of Carmarthen.