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Women's names Zlata and Gittle #names
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Billie Stein
She may have had two names, Zlata Gittle, possibly named for both grandmothers or other relatives.
Billie Stein Givatayim, Israel |
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Diane Jacobs
I always used the expression goodie-two-shoes as someone who always tried to behave appropriately and rarely got into trouble like describing myself growing up.
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Diane Jacobs On Jul 24, 2022, at 7:03 AM, Alan Cohen <aandbcohen@...> wrote:
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Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey |
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Ilan Ganot
These are two different names:
Zlata means Golde in Yiddish or Zehava in Hebrew, while Gittle or Gittel is a Yiddish name meaning Tova in Hebrew. It was not uncommon that Jews carried two names: a Yiddish /. Hebrew name used inside the Jewish community, and another name used for registration at the authorities. Ilan Ganot ilang12350@... |
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Alan Cohen
The term Goodie in English has nothing to do with Gittle. It is a short form of Goodwife used in medieval days to address a married woman of lower status than one addressed as Mistress. Of course calling someone Goodie-two-shoes implied she thought she owned shoes and therefore thought she was above her station in life.
Alan Cohen
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Jules Levin
Zlata is Slavic, could be the "secular name" = 'Goldie', while Gittle is Yiddish, = 'Goodie' common in English countries in the past, cf. Goodie-Two-shoes. Jules Levin, Los Angeles
On 7/23/22 1:08 PM, Yonatan Ben-Ari
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We have a picture of a relative in which it was written L "son of |
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Yonatan Ben-Ari
We have a picture of a relative in which it was written L "son of
Zlata". Our family records show that her name was " Gittle". Are these names interchangeable possibly because the common letters-T and L ? Or should we look for other possible reasons for the difference in her name? Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem |
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