Re: Is the first name Marx a shortened version of Mordecai #names
Dick Plotz <Dick@...>
I haven't seen this in Lithuania, but in German-speaking areas in the
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19th century Marx was very commonly a civil name used by men whose Hebrew name was Mordecai. I wouldn't call it a "shortened" form, although it's certainly shorter when written in English; it's more along the lines of the frequent associations of Philip/Feivel or Emanuel/Menachem. Why would someone from Lithuania use "Marx" as their civil name, rather than Marcus or Mark (or Mordecai, for that matter)? You'd have to look at when and where he adopted that civil name, and you haven't told us anything about that. Even in Lithuania, I think German might have been used as a cultural step up, rather than Russian: it was the language of a neighboring country with more enlightened policies than Russia's, and it was easy to learn for someone whose native language was Yiddish. But that's just a guess. Dick Plotz Providence RI USA
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:13 AM Phil Goldfarb <phil.goldfarb@...> wrote:
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