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Page 18 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE August 3, 1979
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Name game
A Jew by any other name...
by Roy Gordon
The Jewish Veteran
Was Shakespeare right “A
rose by any other name...?”
Certainly the Jewish custom of
naming infants after deceased
ancestors caused a problem in the
days when there were more infants
than ancestors to be honored. So
several infants wound up being
named Itzik, or Rose, or whatever.
And, since most of them were in
the same family—cousins—and
had the same last name, how were
they told apart? And the answer,
loud and strong, via Minsk and
Pinsk and Vilna: Usually by some
characteristic, or occupation, or
special quality, such as Rosie the
Farmerkeh, Rosie the Butcherkeh,
Rosie the Nayer. (Farmer,
Butcher, Seamstress.)
Then there were such
outstanding individuals as Beryl
der Gesusener, Beryl der Kleiner,
and Beryl der Tzadick. (The Short,
the Small, the Smart.)
But what happened when a
shadchen (matchmaker) entered
the picture and love matured, so
that we had Beryl der Gesusener
hut geliebt Channeh de L.angeh?
(Bernard the Short loved Hannah
the Tall )
If you have no other clues when
you are doing your search through
old records, beware of the same
name:- Bernard Cohen was
probably several people several
First cousins—all named after the
same common ancestor. But which
line are you descended from? Thus,
the need to find out the nicknames
of all such ancestors. Otherwise,
you run the danger of finding out
eventually, that you are really a
cousin to yourself.
Jews did not always have the
types of surnames we take for
granted today. The system —
custom—grew with the growth of
Yiddish. Yiddish started in the
Moishe Cohen. She is also the
niece of Bernard the Short and
Hannah the Long.
If you have a surname which was
changed to a form more familiar to
Americans, do not feel slighted.
Jews have been making these
‘...beware of the same name:
Bernard Cohen was probably
several people—all named after
the same common ancestor.’
Ilth century in the Rhineland
where a lot of Jews blunjet on their
way to wherever they were going.
The Jews used the local vernacular
and wrote it in Hebrew characters,
and, lo and behold, we had instant
Yiddish By the 15th century it was
the basic Jewish language on the
continent. Isn't it wonderful how a
good thing can get around so
quickly?
One way to keep up your
Yiddish connection almost on a
daily basis is to substitute Jewish
words for English words. Take a
TV "'■ws broadcast. One could go
this way:
Good evening, this is Walter
Sickness'with the news.
Today Lester Gentleman
married Ida Birdman, brilliant and
beautiful niece of Rabbi Moishe
Priest. She is also the plemenitzeh
of Beryl der Gesusener and
Channeh de l.angeh.
Translated loosely, that means:
This is Walter Cronkite with the
news. Today Lester Edelman
married Ida Feigelman, brilliant
and beautiful niece of Rabbi
changes through the generations as
they moved about. Most of the
names were taken from locations
or occupations, or occasionally, a
characteristic, like Edelman Or
something poetic, like Feigelman.
But some of the names of our
Jews make you ponder: Why
would anyone want to be known as
Bilik (Cheap) for instance? Yussel
the Cheap Not much honor and
glory in that But there can be a lot
of charm chayn in nicknames
based on things people do and
which are broad enough in meaning
so they do not have to be changed
from week to week, like, for
instance, laundry...There could be
Tessie the Toasted, George the
Grilled. Samson the Smart,
Debbie the Actress, Yetta the
Writer, Manny the Tailor, Maxine
the Farshluffeneh (Sleepy), Oscar
the Oysgevaygt (Washed Out -
usually applied hy a Jewish
Mother to a plump and robust
youngster), and Peter the Plapoon
(Not-too-hright). Or Yudis the
Oysgelunken Yudis the Sprain
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