Shapiro 27. Siegel 28. Silverman 29. Weinstein Not everyone with one of these last names is Jewish, and not all Jews in the United States — not even close to a majority of Jews — have one of them.

He made a list of the most commonly appearing names in the files of Los Angeles’ Jewish federation. He then found that a set of 35 last names accounted for about 12% of names appearing on the Los ...

So far, he’s done Cairo, Alexandria, Baghdad, Damascus and Aleppo, and earlier this month, he published his latest, Beirut — which lists nearly 800 surnames, from Abadi to Zilkha.