Better is a handful of ease than two handfuls of toil and chasing after the wind.

Kohelet 4:6

Weinburg clan

Weinburg

Family name origin

The rather spread today family name Weinberg became widely spread already by the end of the 18-th century on the territory of the Austro-Hungarian empire and modern Germany.

The very ethimology of the word "weinberg" is quite interesting. Literally the word is translated from Yiddish and German as "wine mountain". Grapes, as many researchers think, were always raised in Europe on southern-eastern slopes of mountains so that fruits could enjoy Sun's rays. The word "weinberg" that gradually...

Last name spellings

  • Weinburg
  • וייבורג

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