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What nationality is mark zuckerberg ?
What nationality is facebook 's ceo mark zuckerberg ?
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He is American. Specifically, he is a New Yorker. He was born in White Plains and raised in nearby Dobbs Ferry.
If you are asking his ethnicity, he is Jewish. He is apparently not practicing or religious. The name is originally Austrian.
It translates as Sugar Mountain in German. Probably it was assigned by Austrian officials when Jews were made to adopt last names.
If you are asking his ethnicity, he is Jewish. He is apparently not practicing or religious. The name is originally Austrian.
It translates as Sugar Mountain in German. Probably it was assigned by Austrian officials when Jews were made to adopt last names.
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His father was a dentist in Dobbs Ferry for more than 30 years, and who went to college in Brooklyn. There have been Zuckerbergs in NYC at least since 1900, although I don't know his family tree. They included a well known Yiddish actress in the early part of the century, Regina Zuckerberg "the Austrian Prima Donna" who arrived in 1908 and died in 1964.
His mother's side of the family are Kempners, also American, also Jewish, also New Yorkers.
About the name:
"The earliest of these laws came from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1788. All Jews in the Hapsburg Empire, including Galicia (Austrian Poland) were made to adopt a German surname. This was done to better keep track of the Jewish population for taxation and conscription purposes. If a family did not choose a name that was to the Austrian officials’ liking, one would be assigned to them. No place names or Yiddish names were allowed. This is one reason why so many Jews today have German surnames.
Genealogist Barbara Krasner-Khait describes this surname selection process in Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors: “A group of officials — one cavalry captain, one lieutenant, one auditor, and two noncommissioned officers — traveled from community to community to enforce surname adoption. Their mission consisted of preventing adoption of common German surnames among Jews — their priority was selection of unusual family names, ensuring each family in the same locality received a different name. This has obvious implications for the genealogist: a married son not living with his parents would have had to select a different family name from his father. If he lived with his parents, he would have had to select the same family name — or not. These priorities were not always enforced.”
http://tribstar.com/history/x1303129374/GENEALOGY-Jewish-ancestry-can-be-difficult-to-trace
Some etymology might have been helpful, for instance the background of parents or known ascendents .