Dear Jgenners, There's yet another possible reason for this kind of confusion. The changeover to the current western calendar occurred at different times in different countries. Thus my father (born i

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Dear Jgenners, There's yet another possible reason for this kind of confusion. The changeover to the current western calendar occurred at different times in different countries. Thus my father (born i

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Please allow me to correct an error I made while proofreading my last message -- which produced the opposite result >from what I intended to say: I refer to the sentence which read: (Even the term "mi

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Please allow me to correct an error I made while proofreading my last message -- which produced the opposite result >from what I intended to say: I refer to the sentence which read: (Even the term "mi

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Dear Alex, You are of course correct. Not only that, but the phrase “Old Testament or Orthodox Jew” is itself an oxymoron. There were no “Orthodox” Jews around in Old Testament times! In fact, except

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Dear Alex, You are of course correct. Not only that, but the phrase “Old Testament or Orthodox Jew” is itself an oxymoron. There were no “Orthodox” Jews around in Old Testament times! In fact, except

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This use of a more "polite" term brings to mind the "polite" use of "Israelite" -- particularly in France but also sometimes in England -- to avoid using the word Jew, which in Christian minds was far

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This use of a more "polite" term brings to mind the "polite" use of "Israelite" -- particularly in France but also sometimes in England -- to avoid using the word Jew, which in Christian minds was far

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Sally Bruckheimer wrote as follows: "Theodore Bikel said at the LA JGS Conference that his gt grandfather had chosen the surname by stabbing his finger at a page in a Bible opened at random, and takin

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Sally Bruckheimer wrote as follows: "Theodore Bikel said at the LA JGS Conference that his gt grandfather had chosen the surname by stabbing his finger at a page in a Bible opened at random, and takin

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My husband's grandfather, born in Tarnow, Poland, was named Izak-Eisig. The first name is Hebrew and the second name a Yiddishization of the Hebrew. To name a boy Icek-Eysyk or Izak-Eisig is more or l

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My husband's grandfather, born in Tarnow, Poland, was named Izak-Eisig. The first name is Hebrew and the second name a Yiddishization of the Hebrew. To name a boy Icek-Eysyk or Izak-Eisig is more or l

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There has obviously been considerable influence of Yiddish on the English language, especially in America -- but also in England. I had assumed that the English slang term "copper" for a policeman cam

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There has obviously been considerable influence of Yiddish on the English language, especially in America -- but also in England. I had assumed that the English slang term "copper" for a policeman cam

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To me, one of the most interesting things about Glueckel's memoirs is that whereas the author goes into great detail describing births, marriages and deaths, she never (so far as i recall) so much as

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To me, one of the most interesting things about Glueckel's memoirs is that whereas the author goes into great detail describing births, marriages and deaths, she never (so far as i recall) so much as

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Dear Stan, But who said anything about birthdays in general -- or >from the point of view of civil records? We were speaking only of the age at which a Jewish boy becomes obligated to keep mitzvot-- i

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Dear Stan, But who said anything about birthdays in general -- or >from the point of view of civil records? We were speaking only of the age at which a Jewish boy becomes obligated to keep mitzvot-- i

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Maybe so, but the name itself is obviously Polish, not German (i.e., not Prussian)! And it is certainly true of Polish surnames that gentile names end in -ski while the Jewish version of the same name

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Maybe so, but the name itself is obviously Polish, not German (i.e., not Prussian)! And it is certainly true of Polish surnames that gentile names end in -ski while the Jewish version of the same name

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