Do you mean Rozdol (not Rozdal), previously in Poland, now in Ukraine? If so, it would be pronounced the Polish way, with J = Y and W = V. Therefore, TAYVIL, or depending on how you pronounce your vowels, TEIVEL. Ironically, a "teivel" is actually a "devil" in Yiddish, but this is unlikely to be the origin of the name. Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People here in Israel, has a database of surnames which does not list TAJWIL/TEIVEL but does list TEVELE and other similar variations as surnames deriving from the Yiddish given name Tevye or Tuvya (Tobias in English), which in turn derives from the Biblical Hebrew Tobiah, which means "the goodness of God." This seems the most likely origin.

Some other responders have mentioned that the name may be Sephardi. The word "tawil" means "tall" in Arabic and is a known surname for Jews and non-Jews in Arabic-speaking countries. The "w" is pronounced the English way. Jews in Poland/Ukraine, however, were most unlikely to have had Arabic surnames.

All the best,
Miriam BULWAR DAVID-HAY,
Raanana, Israel.
Professional writer, editor, proofreader, translator (Hebrew/Yiddish to English).
Certified guide at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum.
Long-time family history researcher.

The Yiddish nickname is sometimes Itche.

My uncle was Shapsel Nikodemus on his 1907 English birth certificate which later became Stephen Nicholas

Can be Icek in Poland. My grandfather, Yitzchak, became Isidor. 
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Abby Barry Bergman
New York

On the 1862 summary of the marriage record of her daughter, my gggrandmother is named Chaia Sura Tywel, but in the body of the text her father's name is given as Faivel. I have always assumed that her name was Chaia Sura bat Faivel.
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Helen Gardner

ancestral names, all from Poland, mostly Warsaw

AJGENGOLD/EIGENGOLD, BERCHOJER, BLANK, BIALOGORA, BLUMBERG, CHMIELNICKI, FELD, FERNEBOK/FERNSBUN, EDELMAN, FRYDMAN, GELDTRUNK, GURIN, ISSAKOWICH, LAKS, LERMAN, MALIS, MENDER/MONDER, MLYNARZ/MILLER, PODGORER/PODGORSKI, POPOWER, RAUTARBER/ROTGERBERG, RASTENBERG, POSSIBLY PRESSEIZEN

Hello,

I am researching the WURMs from Hungary. There are several teories concerning the origin of WUM as a surname:

1. The ancestors of the family originated from the medieval German town of WORMS.
2. Its a fantasy name in contemporary German, meaning WORM in English.
3. Its a fantasy name from old or middle German, meaning Dragon in English (Like in the operas of Wagner.

There rae sveral forms, like WURM, WORM, VURM, VORM etc.

Regards,

Gyorgy Ujlaki

Dear Jackie,

I would think the place you mentioned might be Magyarkomjat in the Subcarpathian area, now in Ukraine

https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarkomj%C3%A1t

https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/velikiye_komyaty/

The name translates as "Hungarian Komjat". "Ungar" might mean Hungarian, J was mispelled as "MI".

I drove through it several times.

Cheers,
Gyorgy

Unfortunately, there are so many evident and intentional (!!) errors and ommissions in this book to treat it as a serious source of data. Mr Grabowski "corrected" the documents to show that Polish police helped Nazi forces. More, this is not Polish police but the forces directed by Germans. Thus, Grabowski could not be treated as historian!
Best regards,
Pawel

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. 

This is the marriage certificates of my great grandparents from Zamosch at 1867.
Any information regarding their occupation, year of birth, or city of ancestry will be highly appriciated.

It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82509
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Thank you very much.

Dr. Ofer Cornfeld

In Kharkov, which became the capital of Soviet Ukraine in December 1919, the provincial Cheka was successively headed by the Russian Vasily Nikolaevich Blinov, mentioned above Schwartz (May-June 1920, formerly vice-chairman), the Polish nobleman Ivan Antonovich Menitsky and the Polish proletariat Stanislav Frantsevich Redens, from December 1920 to July 1921, Isaac Solomonovich Radin (Esterman), the last chairman of the Kharkov Cheka was Afanasy Tikhonovich Tantsura, among the deputy chairmen were Livshits and S.I. West.

I've posted a photo of a matzevah in Cleveland Ohio. I need a translation for the right side of the stone, which is in Hebrew. 
It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82362
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.

Thank you so much for your help. 

Avivah R. Z. Pinski ,  near Philadelphia, USA

My father Gabor Hoenig (1922-2015) was part of group of forced labor survivors who wrote a short collective history of the IX/1 Battalion of forced laborers. It's in Hungarian and is named after a pop song of 40s A vaci utca felragyog (Vaci Street lights up). Its author was Propper Jeno. Those who can read Hungarian would find it very useful. On the back there is the following (my very rough translation)

More than a third of us perished between the curve of the Don and the battlefield. From our many companies nobody or a few solitary witnesses survived.A great many of us perished in the mines at Bor or on the road. Huge numbers also died on the Western border or were deported to the German territories. Forty two percent of the  "lucky" company survived and fifty-eight percent died or disappeared in the last few weeks. We cherish the memory of our comrades who were unable to survive the murderous weeks of the Nyilas (Arrow Cross) regime, and the memories of the millions who were cruelly murdered by facsism. We trust the future of our memories to this chronicle. Letters don't die ...

Ron Hoenig
Adealide South Australia
HOENIG, BERKOVITS, RUTNER,  IZSAK