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Friday, July 23, 1965
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DRake 8-3607
Decatur, Georgia
Koffee
by VIDA GOLDGAR
The Game of The Name
This practice of changing your
last name to a more “euphonic”
one, or one more “in keeping
with the crowd,”—so popular
with a great many of our Ameri
cans of Jewish faith in the last
two or three generations—now
has a striking counterpart in
Israel.
But not what you would ex
pect! It’s a reverse twist—Arabs
changing their names to Jewish
ones!
Seems that some Arabs of the
younger generation become ro
mantically interested in Israeli
girls. But the Sabras, under
normal circumstances, would
scarcely deign to accept over
tures from Arab w o u 1 d-be
suitors. Thus—a new desert
camouflage. These Arab lads
have taken to hiding their true
descent under the guise of an
Israeli name!
I’ve always been one of those,
personally, who defended the
rights of individuals to change
their name if they wanted to.
It’s not something I would do
myself—but one can understand
the hope on the part of a father
to give his family the new secur
ity of a new name more akin to
the monickers of the majority.
If they figure this device helps—
so be it.
Isn’t it merely part of the
overall major trend — here,
Israel, Europe and everywhere
else — of trying to conform.
Everybody wants to be accepted,
to be part of the crowd. So the
old name has got to go! OK for
Dad in his day—not good
enough for here and now!
Matter of fact, this business in
Israel of the Arabs swinging
over to the Jewish names proves
my point—name changing is
simply the trend to conformity
with the majority and nothing
else. No religious significance.
Besides, if some of us hadn’t
changed our names in recent
years, what would happen to our
Jewish comedians? They’ve long
made a “thing” of this Jewish
name changing. You know, the
"Which O’Brien — Ginsberg or
Cohen?” jokes. Other national
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origins here who are in the
minority are equally addicted to
the name-change practice. Rus
sian, Slovak, Polish, Chinese
names hard to pronounce—you
name it, some will have changed
it. Yet—in most of the humor,
the Jews get all the credit.
One big motivating factor, I
guess, adding impetus to this
trend is the over-abundance of
stage names, pen names and so
on We Jews have a noticeable
theatrical bent, and as such
"noms de guerre” are proper and
customary in thespian endeavors,
maybe we let the footlights
throw us others off on the same
romantic trail of name-swapping.
I’ve heard some speak who are
downright ANGRY about their
fellow Jews changing their
names? “Cowards,” they call
them. Others say, “Won’t work—
did it help the Jews of Hitler’s
Germany escape?” Etc.
For myself, though, how can
I blame those Jews who do want
to change their names? Well, if
they feel it will help their chil
dren be accepted, you and I may
disagree, but can we blame them
for seeking the best for their
family’s future? No, I think not.
Let each follow the dictates of
his own conscience. Must con
fess, though, I do take pride and
pleasure in the fact that a great
many would rather fight than
switch.
One gentleman in Germany
recently asserted to the Court a
unique reason for wanting his
name changed. His feeling was
that his name had religious con
notations. Since he was an
atheist, he said he wanted to
switch to a non-Biblical name!
What’s in a name anyway? It’s
not the label but the product that
is truly important. All the labels
may be alike—but the products
still range from Grade A to
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