JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Is Naftali often a Hebrew rendition to the Yiddish Hersh? #general
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Joseph Hirschfield
Hersh is Yiddish and Tzvi and Naphtali are Hebrew--all refer to "deer". I
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believe a Hebrew name on a gravestone is more commonly used. Sometimes a person has both a Hebrew name and a Yiddish name and each is used in different situations. Often a person has only a Yiddish name. Joe Hirschfield Portage, MI USA HIRSCHFELD, LINDENBAUM, BUXBAUM-Gliniany, Skwarzawa, Sielec Bienkow GLINIANY MINOVITSKY, MINOFF, TOBIASZ-Wysokae Litovsk, Brest-Litovsk-BELARUS
In a message dated 4/22/2018 Avraham Yehoshua Kahana writes:
In Pinchas Hersh KANO'z grave, I found, when expecting Pinchas Tzvi,
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