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All Jews are responsible each for the other. Talmud, Shavuot |
The family name Hellman belongs to a very wide spread group of the Jewish names – the patronymic names that are formed on the basis of a male personal name. Usually this was a name of either the father or a grandfather of the family that was the first to receive the name. Thus apparently a person with the name Hellman is the forefather of the clan.
The name appeared in Germany and its meaning is “man from a deep, wild glen”.
The name is quite rare and one can assert with almost...
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