Partzuf clan
Family name origin
The name Parchuf is extremely rare.
It comes from the Hebrew word "partzuf" - face, physiognomy. Besides the literal meaning, this word is also used as a term in Kabbalah.
The first mentioning of Parchufs on the territory of the Russian empire is in "revizskaya skazka" (census) for 1834.
The following people with this family name lived in the shtetl Holopenichi in Borisov uezd of the Minsk gubernia:
Srul (Isroil) Parchuf son of Movsha, born in 1783 (died in 1825).
His nephew - Itzka...
Last name spellings
- Парцуф
- Partzuf
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