"Udi Cain" <chaikin@netvision.net.il> wrote in message news:004301c358c2$075cd550$f06e003e@udi4b3tuqi4slv...
Michael Bernet < MBernet@aol.com > wrote: In a message dated 8/1/2003 9:56:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sallybru@wdcunet.net writes:
<< It is possible that Ira was known in Europe as any Hebrew name, but more likely something starting with I. Isaac? Israel? Any other Hebrew I name. Also, because the I and the J were interchangeable at one time, he
could have been a J like Joseph, but I think this much less likely-he would have been called Joe. >>
<==Reference to an authoritative resource, like Beider's Dictionary of Ashkenazi Given Names, would help anyone trying to understand or explain Hebrew or Yiddish first names. Ira is a Yiddish name with a history of many centuries. It is derived >from the Hebrew name Uri ("my light").>
*= I would like to suggest that "Ira" appears in the English translation
of the Bible at least five times as a translation to the Hebrew name:
Ayin - yod - resh - allef It seems to me as a name of Aramaic origin and
