European antisemitism: how could integration of surnames help segregation?

Fenestella

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Askhenazi Jews were pressured (or encouraged?) by authorities to adopt lexically Germanic and Slavic surnames like -berg, -man(n), -stein, -wski.
Didn't many ethnic Germans and Slavs have such names?
Why designed a policy to make Jews' surnames less distinguishable from ethnic Germans' and Slavs' when the agenda was to segregate?
 
Ashkenazi Jews were the last people in Europe to adopt constant surnames (if we exclude people living under Turkish rule), IIRC it all started with emancipation and the influence of the French Civil Code. Christian surnames were stabilized earlier in history, that's the reason behind the differences.

OTOH most Sephardic Jews have quite ordinary Spanish/Portuguese surnames.
 
Slavic surnames like -wski.

It's a universal naming pattern in Poland and parts of the Russian Empire, meaning "of something", either a geographical origin or a nobiliary designation. Somewhere-ow-ski. Or (descended from) Someone-ski.

So it's basically already as Slavic as you can get.
 
You could make it so the Jews take on common German surnames instead of what seem to be rather rare surnames. The Jewish surnames of German origin almost seem exclusively associated with Jews, although that's in large part because Jews made up a large part of certain occupations and thus got their occupation as their surname (like surnames with gold and silver). The Slavic Jewish surnames seem at least as non-Jewish though.

I think you'd need to make it a conscious effort on the part of the authorities to make (Ashkenazi) Jewish surnames blend in with their non-Jewish countrymen, and you'd do that by enforcing on the Jews common surnames. Although you'd have to be careful with that policy, since if you gave every Jew in Germany the ten most common surnames in Germany nowadays, those names might end up as stereotypically Jewish as someone with a surname like "Goldstein".
 
Why designed a policy to make Jews' surnames less distinguishable from ethnic Germans' and Slavs' when the agenda was to segregate?

Who's to say that it was?

The policies to force integration (like the surname one) and the policies to encourage segregation were implemented at different times for different reasons. It's hardly the first or last time that multiple conflicting policies are enacted.

Most countries with Jewish populations saw periodic attempts to integrate them, especially in that murky period in the 18th and 19th centuries when nationalism was starting, but Jews had not yet been excluded from it.
 
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