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About the Fekete surname

fekete means black in hungarian, the original name was shwartz which means black in yiddish and was changed from shwartz to fekete b/c of reasons i dont know

In the 19th century Jewish Hungarians were given the possibility To make their jewish names Hungarian. Hence the frequent translations. Schwartz became Fekete, Muller became Molnar and so on