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The source for the name is Austrain where the jews needed to purchase a family name.the highest the paid the lucrative the family name was.So the meanning of Finkelstein is derived out of the german name FUNKEL which is shinning and STEIN means Stone and the combination is a lucrative stone such as diamond,Rubi etc...