JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re:Schloime/Shlomo #general
Judith Singer
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recommending the JewishGen Given Name Database so often (I'm kidding, JewishGen, no worries). According to the JewishGen Given Name Database at https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/GivenNames/search.htm, Shlomo is a Hebrew name. Schloime (or several other possible spellings) is the Yiddish version. Schloime might well have used the patronymic along with his Yiddish name and his surname because he was most likely known within the Jewish community as Schloime ben Zindel. Surnames were required by the Russian government but many Jews used them only rarely, when dealing with Russian officials, for example. On an everyday basis, Schloime would have used his Yiddish name and not his Hebrew name, which was mostly reserved for Jewish legal purposes and solemn events such as the birth records of his sons, his ketubah, and his being called up to the Torah. Judith Singer
From: Sharon Korn <mssrkorn@...>
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