Talk:Katz (surname)

Split

 * A disambiguation page and Katz (name) used to coexist at Katz, before they were split. This history now exists at Talk:Katz/Old history.--Commander Keane 10:59, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Source?
This article contains unquoted word for word text from the Jewish Encyclopedia article on Katz, which also appears here as an external link. Either this article is copied from the JE site and should be rewritten, or the JE article is copied from here and need not be linked. Ecphora (talk) 01:16, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Katz, Katz(e)lmacher, all derogative
I doubt the ethymologies given for Katz and Katzmann in the main article, even the one from castle Katzenelnbogen. For example today’s "Katzlmacher" (literally today: maker of small cats), used derogatively in German for Italians, is explained in http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzlmacher#Wortherkunft as either coming from Latin catinus, kettle, thus kettle maker, or from the Late-Latin cattia, meaning a wooden spoon. These spoons were carved in a valley of South Tyrol (Gröden), and sold by traveling tradesmen, not well esteemed. Also "Ketzer", heretic, was associated. So be careful with too much phantasy in ethymology … A tech writer: Fritz Jörn (talk) 10:42, 20 November 2009 (UTC)-- Fritz@Joern.com

I learned that in Nazi Germany everyone was required to purchase an official German surname. Some were reserved for Jews only, some for non-Jews, and some could be purchased by both. The ambiguous names, which meant nice things like Mountain of Flowers, were the most expensive for Jews. The least expensive names were Katz (cat), and Hund (dog). The poorest people were stuck with buying those. Obviously, more people preferred to be called Mr. Cat than Mr. Dog. However, Hunt and other variations derived from Hund are also fairly common Jewish names. Katz is extremely common. The explanation in your article is WRONG.Anonnymos (talk) 03:48, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

E.R. Katz
S. BRENNER, L. BARNETT, E. R. KATZ & F. H. C. CRICK UGA: A Third Nonsense Triplet in the Genetic Code Nature 213, 449 - 450 (04 February 1967); doi:10.1038/213449a0

The famous paper on the completion of the genetic code lists ER Katz - any idea who this is? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82squaremetres (talk • contribs) 07:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)