Her Mom's Last Name

http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=pfeffer
http://houseofnames.com/Pfeffer-family-crest

Austrian is fine.  I'm guessing it's Jewish.  It seems like Austria would ... was kind of the opposite of Germany and maybe like Poland, which I could be Polish or Jewish or Swiss or Jewish.  It's not a near last name, but still.  I mean it's not removed 5 times, though, at least not both.