Why do so many jews have german-sounding names?

by uhuhuhu

Stereotypical jewish names like Goldstein or Rosenberg are often composited of german words like "Gold" and "Stein".
Since the religion orginally started in an hebrew-speaking area, I'm wondering why german names are now associated with them instead of hebrew names.

mc8675309

This was, I think, answered in part previously here where /u/TheJuchiesLoose discussed the creation of Jewish last names.