Re: Given name Leni #austria-czech
Prof. G. L. Esterson <jerry@...>
David Laufer posted as follows:
Can anyone tell me about the given name Leni ? Is it a name in its ownThe name Leni is a stand-alone given name much used by non-Jewish Germans, and adopted beginning about 1800 by German Jews. It was also used by them as a diminutive for the German secular name Helene. Sometime after this secular name Leni began to be used actively by Jews in Germany, it was also adopted by Jews living in other European countries, including Czechoslovakia. Its use by Jews in Germany is shown in the JewishGen Given Names Data Base for Germany at the web site: < http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/GivenNames/ > by searching for the name Leni using Plain Text Search. Its use in Czechoslovakia and other countries will be seen in the GNDBs for those countries on the JewishGen web site, after an upcoming update. Professor G. L. Esterson, Ra'anana, Israel jerry@...
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