How did Jews ever end up with last names like Goldberg, Silverstein, and Speilberg?

Question

As far as common sense goes, a real Jew is from the middle east and tend to have dark hair and dark eyes, along with olive skin and tend not to be a blonde Polish guy name Peter Goldstein!!! Where the hell did these so called Jews come from? How does a Jew with dark skin, from the middle east become a blonde, fair skinned man in Europe with a completely non semite name?

Answer 1

Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim are descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland. "Ashkenaz" is the Medieval Hebrew name for Germany.
Many later migrated, largely eastward, forming communities in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Eastern Europe and elsewhere between the 10th and 19th centuries. From medieval times until the mid-20th century. The Ashkenazi Jews developed a distinct culture and liturgy influenced, to varying degrees, by interaction with surrounding peoples, predominantly Germans, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Kashubians, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Letts, Belarusians, and Russians.
Although in the 11th century they comprised only 3% of the world's Jewish population, Ashkenazi Jews accounted for (at their highest) 92% of the world's Jews in 1931 and today make up approximately 80% of Jews worldwide.[4] Most Jewish communities with extended histories in Europe are Ashkenazim, with the exception of those associated with the Mediterranean region. A significant portion of the Jews who migrated from Europe to other continents in the past two centuries are Eastern Ashkenazim, particularly in the United States (which has the largest Ashkenazi population in the world and thus second-largest Jewish population in the world) .
A Jewish settlement is known to have existed in Macedonia in the time of Caligula (37–41 C.E. At the time of the final Turkish conquest of Bulgaria (1396), Jews were living in Vidin, Nikopol, Silistra, Pleven, Sofia, Yambol, Philippopolis (now Plovdiv), and Stara Zagora.

Those of Jewish faith have developed communities all over the world and over time assimilated ethic features of the communities in which they had settled through intermarriage. I this they are little different than other peoples. For example, I come from Celtic peoples of the British Isles and from that have the blood of many people in my background. In addition the Celts came from many migrations (likely from the Caucuses) into and covering Europe and therefore have the features of many people, the Jewish people are little different. They have a common feature in that, as language relates the Jewish people together, so too does language more clearly define Celts than any other approach. In other words what you are suggesting is an unfounded stereotype and doesn’t reflect reality.

This stereotype certainly doesn't reflect the attitudes and beliefs of Ron Paul.

Answer 2

Well, you realize that Jewish can mean Jewish faith, or Jewish nationality...right? Not to mention that for example, in my family...there were Jewish people who married Germans, who married Swiss. The women still had Jewish heritage, with German or Swiss last names due to marriage, and there are a LOT of blondes in my family.

Answer 3

Most of today's Jews aren't ethnic Jews but Khazars, people from the areas around the Caspian sea that collectively converted to Judaism. Jews changed their names to fit in their surrounding, so they chose something they like: Gold-, Silver-...
Just look at Bob Dylan (Zimmerman), Leon Trotsky (Bronstein) etc.

Answer 4

Wow, and all this time I thought I was Jewish! Gee, thanks for straightening me out! I'll make sure and convert to something else that matches my features the *first* chance I get.

*snorts derisively*