Thomas Fürth
Biographic Data
| ID | 6496777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Fürth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Fürth |
| SIGNATURE | FÜRTH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Searching for Jewish Ancestors before They Had a Fixed Family Name—Three Case Studies from Bohemia, Southern Germany, and Prague
Anyone who traces their Jewish ancestors back to the 18th century and even further back in history encounters the challenge of looking for ancestry without the clue that a fixed family name provides. Before the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, when Jews were forced by law to adopt a fixed family name, Ashkenazim Jewish families used patronymic names as last names. A patronymic name changes every generation. Sometimes, in larger …
Values, Life-Styles and the Future. Swedish Future Studies in the Late 1980s
The Secretariat for Future Studies deals with broad and complex questions such as the relationships between parts of the entire social system rather than isolated sectors. Those questions are tackled by studying changes in values and life-styles. This paper presents two studies using this approach. The first treats shifts in values in Sweden concerning such things as work, family, life, aging and welfare both retrospectively and prospectively. Th…
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Values, Life-Styles and the Future. Swedish Future Studies in the Late 1980s
The Secretariat for Future Studies deals with broad and complex questions such as the relationships between parts of the entire social system rather than isolated sectors. Those questions are tackled by studying changes in values and life-styles. This paper presents two studies using this approach. The first treats shifts in values in Sweden concerning such things as work, family, life, aging and welfare both retrospectively and prospectively. Th…
Searching for Jewish Ancestors before They Had a Fixed Family Name—Three Case Studies from Bohemia, Southern Germany, and Prague
Anyone who traces their Jewish ancestors back to the 18th century and even further back in history encounters the challenge of looking for ancestry without the clue that a fixed family name provides. Before the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, when Jews were forced by law to adopt a fixed family name, Ashkenazim Jewish families used patronymic names as last names. A patronymic name changes every generation. Sometimes, in larger …
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