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The English meaning of Camerini is Courtier of the royal chambers ; from Camerino near Macerata, Italy.
The name Camerini is of Italian origin.
The surname Camerini is aToponymic name, which means that it is derived from a man's given name, usually a father , paternal ancestor or patron.
There are many indicators that the name Camerini may be of Jewish origin, emanating from the Jewish communities of Spain and Portugal.
When the Romans conquered the Jewish nation in 70 CE, much of the Jewish population was sent into exile throughout the Roman Empire. Many were sent to the Iberian Peninsula. The approximately 750,000 Jews living in Spain in the year 1492 were banished from the country by royal decree of Ferdinand and Isabella. The Jews of Portugal, were banished several years later. Reprieve from the banishment decrees was promised to those Jews who converted to Catholicism. Though some converted by choice, most of these New-Christian converts were called CONVERSOS or MARRANOS (a derogatory term for converts meaning pigs in Spanish), ANUSIM (meaning "coerced ones" in Hebrew) and CRYPTO-JEWS, as they secretly continued to practice the tenets of the Jewish faith.
Our research has found that the family name Camerini is cited with respect to Jews & Crypto-Jews in at least 20 bibliographical, documentary, or electronic references:
Dicionario Sefaradi De Sobrenomes (Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames), G. Faiguenboim, P. Valadares, A.R. Campagnano, Rio de Janeiro, 2004
A bilingual (Portugese/English)reference book of Sephardic surnames. Includes New Christians, Conversos, Crypto-Jews (Marranos), Italians, Berbers and their history in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Contains over 16,000 surnames presented under 12000 entries, with hundreds of rare photographs, family shields and illustrations.It also contains a 72-page summary of Sephardic history, before and after the expulsion from Spain and Portugal, as well as a 40-page linguistic essay about Sephardic names, including an interesting list of the 250 most frequent Sephardic surnames. The period covered by the dictionary is of 600 years, from the 14th to the 20th century, and the area covered includes Spain and Portugal, France, Italy, Holland, England, Germany, Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Ottoman Empire, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, North America, Central America and the Caribbean, South America and more.
Dicionario Sefaradi De Sobrenomes (Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames), G. Faiguenboim, P. Valadares, A.R. Campagnano, Rio de Janeiro, 2004
A bilingual (Portugese/English)reference book of Sephardic surnames. Includes New Christians, Conversos, Crypto-Jews (Marranos), Italians, Berbers and their history in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Contains over 16,000 surnames presented under 12000 entries, with hundreds of rare photographs, family shields and illustrations.It also contains a 72-page summary of Sephardic history, before and after the expulsion from Spain and Portugal, as well as a 40-page linguistic essay about Sephardic names, including an interesting list of the 250 most frequent Sephardic surnames. The period covered by the dictionary is of 600 years, from the 14th to the 20th century, and the area covered includes Spain and Portugal, France, Italy, Holland, England, Germany, Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Ottoman Empire, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, North America, Central America and the Caribbean, South America and more.
Laurence Abensur-Hazan. Genealogical Review & Sephardic History, Paris, 1997.
The author is a founder and current President of Etsi ("my tree" in Hebrew), the Sephardi Historical and Genealogical Society based in Paris. A graduate notary and lawyer, she is currently a professional genealogist in Paris. She works on the French naturalization of Jews from the Ottoman Empire and on the Alliance Israelite Universelle Archives.
Various authors, "Scritti in Memoria di Attilio Milano" (Writings in Memory of Attilio Milano),Italy, 1970.
"La Rassegna Mensile Di Israel",is an Italian Jewish review founded by Alfonso Pacifici in 1925 as a monthly supplement to the weekly newspaper "Israel". It dealt with Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life from the traditional point of view. Its editor until 1938 was Guido Bedarida, but it became most effective under the direction, until 1965, of Dante Lattes. From 1965 the review was directed by Yoseph Colombo. The Rassegna was closed by the Fascist government in 1938, but reappeared in 1948 and in time regained its importance.
Ugo Caffaz. Discrimination & Persecution of the Jews in Fascist Italy, Florence, 1988.
Written by a Jewish sociologist in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of Mussolini's anti-semitic measures. These began with a manifesto on the race prepared by Italian "scientists" on 14 July 1938 and continued with successive, ever more draconian, edicts throughout the year. This work collects much of this legislation, which expelled foreign Jews from Italian soil and deprived Italian Jews of their civil rights, stripped them of party membership, expelled them from the armed forces, removed them from their positions in government service (and, thus, from educational institutions), barred students from the universities and the public schools, banned marriages between Christians and Jews, forbade Christians from domestic employment in Jewish homes and Jews from the ownership and management of large corporations, among other punitive measures. One of the most valuable features of this book is its listing of every Jew expelled from the education system, specifying university affiliation and discipline.
Paul Armony. "Apellidos sefardies mas frecuentes obtenidos de los cementerios Avellaneda - Lomas de Zamora - Ciudadela (Acis y Asia) - Tablada Sefaradi y Bancalari" (Common sephardic names as taken from the Avellaneda Cemetery). SEFARAires Nº9 / 2003 página 7.
Paul Armony, President of the Jewish Genealogy Association in Argentina, collected and organized 19,060 records from six Jewish Sephardic cemeteries in Argentina. Of the 3682 surnames of deceased found there, 58% were found to have the same 334 surnames.
Sao Paulo Chevra Kadisha, List of people buried, Sao Paulo 1997.
The Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Society) of Sao Paulo is a Society founded in February 25, 1923, to care for the burial of the Jews of Sao Paulo (city and state). The Society currently runs 4 Jewish cemeteries in Sao Paulo. The research was conducted in three ways: reading the tombstones, a consulting the list of deaths until 24 September 1997, and from the society's records and books. The list of deaths, organized by Prof. Solomon, has the name of the deceased, the grave location and the date of his burial. The books are more detailed, with biographical data, which includes the city of origin, thus enabling it to be confirmed as Sephardic. This is a formal record of one of the most important Jewish communities in Latin America, showing how the country was very attractive for Jews from different and distant locations.
Vittore Colorni, Gli Ebrei a Sermide, Cinque Secoli di Storia 1414-1936 (The Jewis in Sermide, Five Centuries of History 1414-1936) ; Dott. A. Giuffre Editor - Milan, 1983.
Elena Rossi Artom. Gli Artom.Storia di una famiglia della Comunita Ebarica di Asti e sue generazioni (XVI-XX secolo),(The story of a family of Jewish Communities of Asti through its generations: 16th - 20th Centuries), published by S. Zamorani, Turim,1997.
The book reconstructs the history of the family Artom, also presenting the genealogy of the late sixteenth to the twentieth century through the study of legal documents and other unpublished works. The story of a family becomes a mirror of the complex and multifaceted social and economic life of the Jewish community of Asti, its relations with the city, its institutions and its people. Some chapters are devoted to the synagogue and Jewish community institutions of Asti. The publication of several documents in full, and an index of documents relating to Jewish families connected with the community, makes the book an indispensable tool for further research on Jewish life in Asti.
Liliana Picciotto Fargion.Il Libro Della Memoria, Gli ebrei deportati dall'Italia 1943-1945 (The Book of Memory:Jews Deported from Italy 1943-1945), Mursia, 1991.
This meticulously and painstakingly researched work reconstructs the deportation of Italian Jewry to the German death camps. Out of a Jewish population that by 1943 had been reduced by emigration to slightly over 40,000 (of whom 6,500 were foreigners), 6,746 were deported from Italy proper, and another 1,820 from the Dodecanese, Italian possessions in the Aegean. An additional 303 Jews were killed on Italian soil. Identities of at least 900-1,100 other victims have not been established. This work lists in precise demographic detail the names of the known deceased together with the date and place of each arrest, initial place of incarceration, date of departure for Auschwitz, convoy number (forty-four trains set out from Italy), date of debarkation at the camp (the journey took about five days), and date of execution. For most, this was the same day as arrival. The cover photo of this book shows two-year-old Fiorella Anticoli, seized with her entire family in the infamous roundup of almost 1,300 Roman Jews on 16 October 1943. The arrests were carried out by units of the S.S. specially trained for such "actions" and sent to the Italian capital for the purpose. Working under the very walls of the Vatican, the operation had to be carried out as efficiently and with as little tumult and commotion as possible.
Gina Formiggini. Stella d'Italia, Stella di David. Gli Ebrei dal Risorgimento alla Resistenza (Italy's Star, Star of David: The Jews from the Risorgimento to the Resistance), published by Murcia, Milan, 1970 (reprinted 1998).
The documented evidence of the presence of the Jewish Community in the history of Italy.
Michele Luzzatti, Liana Borghi (ed.), Ebrei di Livorno tra Due Censimenti (1841-1938) (The Jews of Leghorn Between Two Censuses), Belforte Editore Libraio, Livorno, 1990.
This work tells the story of one upper-class Italian family: The Salmon - Cave Bondi Jews of Leghorn in between two censuses (1841-1938). Family memories and identity.
Attilio Milano. II Ghetto di Roma (The Ghetto of Rome), Carocci Editore, Rome, 1988.
The Jewish community of Rome is one of the oldest in Europe and one of the oldest continuous Jewish settlement in the world. The condition of the Jews in Rome deteriorated with the diffusion of Christianity ; during the Middle Ages and first Renaissance the condition of the Jews of Roma changed following the policies of the Pope. After the fourth Lateran Council (1215) copies of the Talmud were burned and Jews were forced to wear a distinctive badge (a red tabard for the males and a red petticoat for the women). In 1555 Pope Paul IV decreed that all Jews must be segregated into their own quarters (ghetto), which they were only allowed to leave during the daytime. Jews were banned from most occupations, and the only two professions permitted were money lending and selling used clothing. In the Ghetto there were five Synagogues: Scola Catalana, Scola Castigliana, Scola Siciliana, Scola Tempio and Scola Nova for about 5,000 Jews. This book has become the standard reference for this period.
Franco Pisa, "Parnassim: le grandi Famiglie Ebraiche Italiane dal Secolo 11 al 19" (Parnassim : The great Italian Jewish families from 11th to 19th centuries), edited by Ariel Toaff in Annuario di Studi Ebraici, Carucci Editore, Rome, 1984
This is a recommended work about the genealogy of the great Italian families.
Roberto G. Salvadori. La Comunita Ebraica di Pitigliano dal XVI al XX secolo, (The Jewish Community of Pitigliano 16th - 20th Century), Editrice La Giuntina, 1991.
The history of the Jewish community of Pitigliano is extraordinary. Since the middle of the 16th century more and more Jews came to Pitigliano, partly due to the fact that they were forced out of the Papal States. As time passed a flourishing Jewish community life developed here, which sadly no longer exists here. Pitigliano sits in the southern limit of the beautiful Tuscany "La Piccola Gerusalemme" which got its name both from the ancient medieval landscape of the village (that remembers the beloved Jerusalem) and the wisdom of this Jewish community, that once brought to the area many cultural and social advances (including the Jewish University of Pitigliano, which was founded in the community's flourishing days).
Stefano Jesurum, "Essere Ebrei in ltalia nella testimonianza di ventuno protagonisti", Longanesi, Milan,1987 (Being a Jew in Italy: From the Testimonies of 21 Persons)
Stefano Jesurum was born in Milan in 1951. His parents were Venetian and descended from a Portuguese Sephardic family. During the persecution, most of the family took refuge in Switzerland. He is associated with Left Wing Politics in Italy.
Eleonora Maria Smolensky and Vera Vigevani Jarach, Tante Voci, Una Storia. Italiani Ebrei in Argentina (Many Voices, One Story :Italian Jews in Argentina) (1938-1948), Buenos Aires.
A collection of diaries and memoirs of Italian Jews who emigrated during the years of 1938-1948.
Ercole Sori. La comunità ebraica ad Ancona: la storia, le tradizioni, l'evoluzione sociale, i personaggi , Ancona, (The Jewish Community in Ancona) 1995.
The history, traditions, social development and characters of Ancona, prepared for the Department of Cultural Assets & Activities of the Ancona Municipality. The Jewish community of Ancona dates back to around 1300. In 1427 the Franciscan frairs tried to force the Jews of Ancona to wear the Jewish badge and to live in a single street, but apparently this attempt was unsuccessful. After the expulsion of the Jews from the Spanish Territories in 1492 refugees began to arrive in Ancona, to be joined later by others from the Kingdom of Naples. As Ancona was about to be declared a free port, Pope Paul III invited merchants from the Levant to settle in Ancona regardless of their religion. Promising protection against the Inquisition he encouraged the settlement of Jews and crypto-Jews. Thus many Jewish merchants took advantage of the harbor facilities and settled in town to trade with the Levant. About one hundred Portuguese crypto-Jewish families settled in Ancona.
Renzo Toaff. La Nazione Ebrea a Livorno e a Pisa (1591-1700),(The Jewish Nation in Livorno and Pisa 1591-1700), Leo S. Olschki Editor, Florence, 1990.
The demographic history of Italian Jewry. Includes bibliographical references, with indexes and appendixes in Italian and Portuguese.
Maria Jose Pimenta Ferro Tavares. Os Judeus em Portugal no seculo XV (The Jews in Portugal in the Fifteenth Century) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon, 1984.
Includes biographic data, maps and bibliography.
Distinguished Jewish bearers of the Camerini name and its variants include : Eugenio Salomone Camerini (1811-1875) Italian Literary Critic
Around the 12th century, surnames started to become common in Iberia. In Spain, where Arab-Jewish influence was significant, these new names retained their old original structure, so that many of the Jewish surnames were of Hebrew derivation. Others were directly related to geographical locations and were acquired due to the forced wanderings caused by exile and persecution. Other family names were a result of conversion, when the family accepted the name of their Christian sponsor. In many cases, the Portuguese Jews bear surnames of pure Iberian/Christian origin. Many names have been changed in the course of migration from country to country. In yet other cases "aliases", or totally new names, were adopted due to fear of persecution by the Inquisition.
Here are some locations where registries of Sephardic or Christianized Jewish families with this surname have been traced: Camerino, Italy,Leiria, Portugal,Lisbon, Portugal,
Some interesting facts about the name this name are : The Jewish quarter "Giudecca" in the city of Camerino, Italy, is worth visiting.
Some common variations of Camerini are Camerino, Camarino, Camarinho,
The following websites are relevant to the surname Camerini:
http://www.tributes.com/show/Giuliana-Camerino-88508792
