Kotzen Genealogy and Kotzen Family History Information

Kotzen is a Jewish name and means “officer” or “leader” in Hebrew. The name traces back to Spain before the Expulsion in 1492. The famous Kassin family that came from Syria to New York around the turn of the 20th century are related.There are four hundred graves with this name in the Jewish cemetery in Riga, Latvia. There were also Kotzens in Russia. There were and still are Kotzens in South Africa who came there from Latvia before the war.