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A casual
bit of Web surfing in Dubiel turned up an interesting
hypotheses. The name Dubiel, in all its fullness, appears on
several web pages dealing angels and demons. It appeared as
DUBBIEL, DUBIEL, and DOBIEL.
It
appears that Dubiel (and variant spellings) was the Guardian
angel of Persia and once officiated in heaven as a stand-in
for Gabriel. He was also referred to as the “bear-god.” But
Dubiel became corrupted through national bias (favoring
Persia) and was expelled, Hence, he is a Fallen Angel.
(See
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Demons/Ddemons.html)
The most interesting part of this is its inclusion in the
Talmud (Yoma 77a)
I
find this interesting for at least three reasons:
1)
The name appears in all its starkness, no additional endings
or prefixes.
2)
Poles did adopt Biblical names, certainly first names (Adam)
and a few surnames.
3)
There was a great intertwining of Polish and Jewish culture
throughout the history of Poland, certainly since the 15th
century, when a great number of expelled Jews entered
Poland.
I
have searching for leads on how the fallen angel story could
have some link to the surname Dubiel. So far I have only
established that the names Dubecki, and Dubetzki have roots
in the Russian dub (“oak” once again), this being in
the Ashkenazic Jewish tradition. Interestingly enough, the
name Dubi (patronymic) in the Sephardic Jewish tradition
(those descended from Jews expelled from Spain in 1492) has
dubb as its root word. According to Jewish
Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary
(Guggenheimer and Guggenheimer), dubb has the Arabic
Sephardic meaning of “bear.”
Perhaps all this is far-fetched , but I’ll continue to look
in the area of Jewish genealogy. This will be quite an
adventure as well as a learning experience. I am also
interested in locating Jewish Dubiel families.
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