Israel - Iran War, page-1789

Did you know that a person does not need to be in or from the Middle East to be Jewish?

Did you know that family names such as Goldstein, Schwartz and Friedman were imposed on Jews by government authorities?

"Jews in Central and Eastern Europe did not widely adopt surnames until the 18th and 19th centuries, when surnames became mandatory in almost most of Europe, when government authorities who required citizens to take last names for taxation, conscription, and education purposes. The first place in the region where Jews were mandated to have a hereditary surname was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when Emperor Joseph II signed a law in 1787 that forced all Jews from the Empire to take a German fixed hereditary surname.
https://www.myheritage.com/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_surnames