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Meaning of name Menachem Mendel #general
Dahn Cukier
Hello,
I don't know if this will be answered, but I have come across a tombstone where the name of the deceased is "Menachem Mendal". The entry in the local histories calls the person "Mendal". Question: Is this the same person? The dates match. Why would there be different names? Is Menachem an honorary such as Mister, Doctor, etc. Dahn Cukierjewis
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Bernard Weill
Menachem Mendel is a very common conjunction of two names, in fact, used to
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name many Lubavitcher males. It is no different than Tzvi Hersh Aryeh Leib Zev Volf Yitzchok Eizek And many more that are not coming to mind right now. The question that should be asked is what is the meaning of Mendel. Bernard Weill
On 28 Apr 2019 21:56:21 -0700, Dahn Cukier photograve99@... wrote:
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cecilia <myths@...>
On 28 Apr 2019 21:56:21 -0700, Dahn Cukier photograve99@... wrote:
I don't know if this will be answered, but I have come"Google is your friend" See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendel_(name) Cecilia Nyleve
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Joseph Hirschfield
Menachem has a biblical origin (Menacheim). Melakhim II, 15:14. He was the
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sixteenth king of Israel. Menachem Mendel is a common combination. Source:"Jewish Personal Names" by Rabbi Shmuel Gorr. Joseph Hirschfield Portage, MI USA Herschfeld, Herzfeld, Buxbaum, Buchsbaum, Lindenbaum-Glinyany, Skwarzawa, Jaryczow Nowy-GALICIA Minowici, Minowitzki, Minoff-Brest Litovsk, Vysokae-Litovsk-BELARUS In a message dated 4/29/2019 Dahn Cukier wrote:
I don't know if this will be answered, but I have come
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Herbert Lazerow
< I have come across a tombstone where the name of the deceased is
"Menachem Mendal". The entry in the local histories calls the person "Mendal". Question: Is this the same person? The dates match.> Alexander Beider's A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names (Avotaynu 2001) reports that Menakhem was a king of Israel referenced at 2 Kings 15:14. It means "comforter". It was often because of its meaning given to males born in the month of Ab, a month in which according to tradition all manner of bad things happened to the Jewish people, including the destruction of the Temple. Menakhem is often coupled in double names with the name Man and its derivatives. In Yiddish, the addition of -l or -k to the end of a name creates a fond diminuitive, so Mandel or Mendal is a derivative of Man. In eastern Europe, persons with double given names are sometimes referred to in the records with both names, and sometimes only with the first. Less frequently, they may be referred to by only the second of the double names. To my American ears, Menakhem sounds foreign, while Mendel sounds plausibly American. It may be that this person used Mendel in order to sound less foreign. If the dates match, I think this is the same person, especially if there are not others in the geographic vicinity with similar names. Bert -- Herbert Lazerow San Diego
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