What is the origin of the name Cohen?
1: Jewish: from Hebrew kohen ‘priest’. Priests are traditionally regarded as members of a hereditary caste descended from Aaron brother of Moses. See also Kaplan.2: Irish (Galway and Sligo): variant of [...]
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A Seventeenth-Century Autobiography: A Picture of Jewish Life in Bohemia and Moravia. From a Manuscript in the Jewish Theological Seminary (Volume 8)
What is the origin of the name Cohen?
1: Jewish: from Hebrew kohen ‘priest’. Priests are traditionally regarded as members of a hereditary caste descended from Aaron brother of Moses. See also Kaplan.2: Irish (Galway and Sligo): variant of [...]