Are the jonas brothers jewish. look at their names. jonas is a jewish last name?

Jonas:


English, German, French, Jewish (Ashkenazic), Lithuanian, Czech and Slovak (Jonáš), and Hungarian (Jónás): from a medieval personal name, which comes from the Hebrew male personal name Yona, meaning ‘dove’.





To know the ancestry you must do the research, you can't go only by the surname.





And if you decided that everyone with a biblical first name was Jewish, you would be wrong, wrong, wrong.





So what is your problem?

Are the jonas brothers jewish. look at their names. jonas is a jewish last name?
Are the Jonas brothers of Hebrew or Jewish desent? I know they are christian but what are they? Italian? Greek? English? French? Im trying to figure out what their ancestory is. Report Abuse

Reply:Joseph is a Jewish name, BUT it is also English, French, %26amp; German, as well as having Biblical meanings.





Adam is, besides Jewish and Biblical, also English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian. This is the Hebrew word for "man". It could be ultimately derived from Hebrew אדם ('adam) meaning "to be red", referring to the ruddy color of human skin, or from Assyrian "adamu" meaning "to make".





Paul is also English, French, German, Scandinavian, Romanian, as well as Biblical.





Kevin is English, Irish, French . It is the Anglicized form of the Irish name "Caoimhin", derived from the older Irish "Coemgen", composed of the Old Irish elements "coem", "kind, gentle, handsome" and "gein", "birth". Saint Caoimhin established a monastery in Glendalough, Ireland in the 6th century and is the patron saint of Dublin.





Nicholas is English, %26amp; French . From the Greek name Νικολαος (Nikolaos) which meant "victory of the people" from Greek νικη (nike) "victory" and λαος (laos) "people". Saint Nicholas was a 4th-century bishop from Anatolia who, according to legend, saved the daughters of a poor man from lives of prostitution. He is also known as Santa Claus (from Dutch "Sinterklaas"), the bringer of Christmas presents. He is the patron saint of children, sailors and merchants, and Greece and Russia. Nicholas was also the name of two czars of Russia and five popes.





Jerry is strictly English , and a pet form of JEREMY, JEROME, or GERALD .





They grew up in Wyckoff, New Jersey.
Reply:Any name can be Jewish. A lot of names in the U.S. are identified as Jewish as a large portion of immigrants with those name were Jewish while back in the countries they came from the same name was used by Jews and non Jews.





Also, Orthodox and Conservative Judaism defines a Jew by the mother, not the father.


A person gets their surname from the father.


They state they get the nation from the mother and the tribe from the father and if they don't have a Jewish father they belong to the tribe of the nearest male relative on the mother's side of the family. If they don't have a Jewish mother, they aren't Jewish.





Reform Judaism sees it differently.
Reply:No, they are Christian. Their father was a pastor at their local church in New Jersey.


http://www.vividseats.com/concerts/jonas...





In this interview, they discuss their religious faith.


http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?vi...
Reply:no they're not,they actually are half hispanic


they're christian.


not every jewish-sounding last name means that the person carrying the last name is jewish...


plus,jonas isn't very jewish


There's Onas,which is a jewish last name
Reply:rotfl. i think so. i hate their music. good question. but then again...look at their jew fros.

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