ABRAMCZIK Genealogy

Name: Sebastian

Comments: There are jewish families in Argentina with surname ABRAMCZIK

Name: Daniel

Comments: In the Jewish cemetery of La Tablada, Buenos Aires, is buried some people with this surname.

Name: Yehuda

Comments: Yes indeed my friend. The surname "Abramczyk" has very deep Mizrahi origin. This is a historical fact. Abramczyk has its versions in Hebrew and Arabic. If we say that all of the non-Ashkenazi Jews including the Mizrahim are Sephardim, than YES, Abramczyk has Sephardi roots. There is a theory that some Polish-Jewish surnames have some far Sephardic background because as we all should know, the 16th century Poland was called "the Jewish Heaven" and since the 17th century the Polish Jews were a mix of genetic heritage. Jewish people from all around the Europe came to Poland because at the time it was the most tolerant country in the whole Europe right after Turkey (the Ottoman Empire). There is a theory that the Abramczyk surname was adopted by the Jews from the Ottoman Empire because it had the original biblical name in it (which was very important in the Sephardi tradition), plus the suffix "-czyk" meant "the first-born son of...", so as a result "Abramczyk" was "the son of Abram". To prove the suffix theory some historians give an example of "Taitaczak" or "Taitaczyk" which is a pure Sephardic surname. Some other theory states that the Polish Sephardim had to change their last names in order to become the Polish citizens and the full members of the Polish-Jewish community as well. That is why some language scientists and historians claim that the "Abramczyk" surname might be coming from such Sefardi surnames like "Abravanel", "Abramenti", "Avramento", "Abrameto", "Abraim", "Abrach", "Abraira", "Abramo", "Abrami" or "Brami". It is also very closely related to another Polish-Jewish last name "Abramik". There was a Sephardi man named Yuri Abramovich Barbanel whose ancestors settled in Russia, changed their surname from "Abrabanel" to "Abramovich" and added the part "Barbanel" afterwards. What is more, many Jews with the surname "Abramczyk" were of Non-Ashkenazic religious rite. In the records it is stated as "Southern" instead of "Ashkenazic". We might suppose that this "southern" stands for Sephardic and indicates on the Sephardi/Mizrahi roots of these people. At this point we must notice that these Mizrahi (or regarding the religious rite - Sephardi) Jews mixed with the Ashkenazim and permanently blended in the world of Polish Jewry. To sum up - the last name Abramczyk (Abramchik, Abramtzik) is of mixed Jewish origin. These origins might be called as Sephardi but to be precise, I would rather classify it as a Judeo-Slavic last name which is Polish-Jewish and has some Mizrahi Jewish origin. Thank you for your attention! -Yehuda Ibn Abram-

Name: Assane Abu Hashish

Comments: "Abramczyk" (Abramczik, Abramshik, Avramtzik, Abramtshik, Abramchik) is a typically patronymic Judaeo-Slavic last name coming from the Ottoman Jews of Sephardic origin. "Abramczyk" is a typically patronymic Judaeo-Slavic last name coming from the Ottoman Jews of Sephardic origin. About the patronymy - there was a man named Ivan Abramovich Gannibal, a Russian military leader of Ethiopian origin, was the son of Abram Petrovich Gannibal - a general of pure Abyssinian (Ethiopian) origin. As you see, here we have the lastname "Abramovich" in a role of a middle name, indicating the name of the father - Abram.