Worms Name Adoption Document of 1808
On July 20, 1808, Napoléon
Bonaparte required by special law every Jew in his huge Empire to choose and
declare
and from then on adopt a fixed first name and family name.
On this occasion, Worms authorites
called all Jewish adults, married or not, to the Town House in late October
1808.
Including children, 513 names had to be fixed in those days in a handwritten
manual.
The Original can be looked upon in the Worms Stadtarchiv.
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