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Danelle Hollenbeck

Hollender ( Hollander, Hollanderski, Hollenbeck)

Many Jewish family names are derived from countries of origin of residence. Hollender is a spelling variant of Hollaender. A majority, (65%) of Jewish family names are derived from actual places names throughout the Diaspora and in Israel. The reason for this are numerous; Jews assumed names in order to record their place of birth and origin; in memory of a certain town through which they passed on their migration which had some meaning for the family, or to honor a town of which they had heard (particularly from Eretz Israel) sometimes place names became widespread through copying of a name that had been made famous by a certain family, or which had been adopted by a Hassidic dynasty. However many Jewish names which were originally called after a place name have become so distorted and changed that, unless the family kept records, the roots of the name can no longer be traced.

Hollaender in which the German ending ER means "of/from" and can stand for "son of" is based on Holland the name of a Dutch province and the synonym for the Netherlands. Jews are believed to have lived there since the Roman occupation. Documentary evidence of the presence of Jews in the Netherlands dates from the 12th century.

As Jewish family names, Holland and it's variants can also come from villages set up by Dutch dairy farmers in Lituania and Poland in the 16th century.

In the 20th century, hollender is recorded as a Jewish family name during the second world war in a list of Jews who were deported from country Hajdu, Hungary to German death camps.