YADEGAR, YADEGARI, YADEGARY Origin of surname
YADEGAR, YADEGARI, YADEGARY
This family name is based on the Farsi word yadgar which means "memory", souvenir". According to Dr. Jacob Yadegar from Bar-Ilan University, the name is based on the Hebrew expression yachad-gar (live together) which was the name inscribed on fake passports provided to the family by the Jewish Agency when they immigrated to Israel as part of another family - as a reference to the fact that a number of families were brought to Israel as members of one particularly large family. While his grandparents used this surname during all their lives, his father decided to change his family name to the Iranian sounding surname of Yadegar.
This family name is based on the Farsi word yadgar which means "memory", souvenir". According to Dr. Jacob Yadegar from Bar-Ilan University, the name is based on the Hebrew expression yachad-gar (live together) which was the name inscribed on fake passports provided to the family by the Jewish Agency when they immigrated to Israel as part of another family - as a reference to the fact that a number of families were brought to Israel as members of one particularly large family. While his grandparents used this surname during all their lives, his father decided to change his family name to the Iranian sounding surname of Yadegar.