Is zitman a jewish surname?

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Is zitman a jewish surname?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I don't know whether the name is on this site, it might be.
http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/nameorig...
hope this helps. Eastern European, probably German, and perhaps Jewish Yeah, and so is pimplegal It probably can be. When surnames were taken, Jews often took the same surnames of people in their home country.

Also, the definition of a Jew by Orthodox and Conservative Jews is someone who has a Jewish mother, not necessarily a Jewish father. They state they get the nation from the mother and the tribe from the father. If they don't have a Jewish father, they belong to the tribe of the nearest male relative on the mother's side of the family.

A person's name can be O'Callaghan and if they have a Jewish mother, according to Orthodox and Conservative Jews, they are Jewish. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/f...
has 53 entries with the exact spelling option checked. Most are in the Netherlands. Some look sort of Jewish maybe; there is an Izak and some Gertrudes.

Gertrude Elion, who won the Nobel Prize, was Jewish. She invented the drugs that cure leukemia and some drugs that make organ transplants possible. (Not "cure", exactly but "go into remission" and the parents can breathe easier after 5 years.)

Leukemia hits 4,000 kids a year in the USA. 85% of them live, thanks to her. I don't now what the statistics are world-wide, but they all use her drugs. this site might help, just scroll down to the z's

http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/psa/kali... Names that end with "-man" or "-mann" are almost exclusively Eastern European, usually German, and SOMETIMES Jewish. This would be Jews of European extraction, not Israelites. It could be, but not necessarily. I know many Jews whose surnames are not at all 'Jewish' and equally, I know several non Jews with very 'Jewish' sounding names....!

There are some exceptions. The surname Cohen, for instance;you can be pretty confident this is Jewish!