It may be worth knowing that if her English name was Eva, her Hebrew name was almost certainly Havvah. Havvah, whether written in English or in Hebrew, can quite easily be misread as Hannah -- so mayb

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It may be worth knowing that if her English name was Eva, her Hebrew name was almost certainly Havvah. Havvah, whether written in English or in Hebrew, can quite easily be misread as Hannah -- so mayb

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The Sandys Row Synagogue is quite famous and flourishing in the 19th century , so my guess is that you have read it correctly. Please tell us how you found that out -- it is news to me! I have zillion

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The Sandys Row Synagogue is quite famous and flourishing in the 19th century , so my guess is that you have read it correctly. Please tell us how you found that out -- it is news to me! I have zillion

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I am curious as to the meaning (if any) of Pais.>>> May I add a footnote to Ury's comment? The transformation >from Uri to Phoebus to Feibush to the nicknames Pais and Feivel goes one step further. It

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I am curious as to the meaning (if any) of Pais.>>> May I add a footnote to Ury's comment? The transformation >from Uri to Phoebus to Feibush to the nicknames Pais and Feivel goes one step further. It

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There may be a semantic difference, but there's no major *linguistic* difference. To the contrary, the reason hayyah can have the meaning "animal" is because it really means "a living creature." n the

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There may be a semantic difference, but there's no major *linguistic* difference. To the contrary, the reason hayyah can have the meaning "animal" is because it really means "a living creature." n the

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Dear J Genners, A kind friend has drawn my attention to a typo in one of my recent messages,caused by the accidental deletion of three letters, which produced the mystifying expression: "the heyday sl

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Dear J Genners, A kind friend has drawn my attention to a typo in one of my recent messages,caused by the accidental deletion of three letters, which produced the mystifying expression: "the heyday sl

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Assuming that Icho is a nickname for Ichok, the reason people have difficulty with names like Ichok is very simple: we tend to forget or overlook a crucial piece of basic general knowledge in the fiel

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Assuming that Icho is a nickname for Ichok, the reason people have difficulty with names like Ichok is very simple: we tend to forget or overlook a crucial piece of basic general knowledge in the fiel

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Dear Steve, My best guess is that both of the above are probably mis-readings or mis-copyings of originally handwritten consonants The combination Khaya-Sura (Haya -Sara, Hayyah-Sarah) is very common

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Dear Steve, My best guess is that both of the above are probably mis-readings or mis-copyings of originally handwritten consonants The combination Khaya-Sura (Haya -Sara, Hayyah-Sarah) is very common

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Yes, this is well known to Jewish historians. In fact, the Jews were expelled >from France twice -- once in 1306 and again by Charles VI in 1395 (after being allowed to come back at some point. Not to

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Yes, this is well known to Jewish historians. In fact, the Jews were expelled >from France twice -- once in 1306 and again by Charles VI in 1395 (after being allowed to come back at some point. Not to

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KATZAV (more correctly Qatsav, spelled Qof-Tsaddi-Bet, with dagesh hazaq in the Tsaddi -- which doubles that consonant) is talmudic Hebrew for butcher. The noun Qatsav comes >from a verb with the basi

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KATZAV (more correctly Qatsav, spelled Qof-Tsaddi-Bet, with dagesh hazaq in the Tsaddi -- which doubles that consonant) is talmudic Hebrew for butcher. The noun Qatsav comes >from a verb with the basi

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To which Alan Shuchat replied: To which Peretz responded: If I may offer two comments about the Hebrew name <Gad> and the Yiddish word<godl>: (1) Transliterating the Hebrew biblical name <Gad> by the

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To which Alan Shuchat replied: To which Peretz responded: If I may offer two comments about the Hebrew name <Gad> and the Yiddish word<godl>: (1) Transliterating the Hebrew biblical name <Gad> by the

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