I Have a Jewish Name!
Author: Rochel Groner Vorst
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781945560217
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Author: Rochel Groner Vorst
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781945560217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kirsten Fermaglich
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2016-02-02
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1479872997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century, showcasing just how much is in a name Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names for them. But as Kirsten Fermaglich elegantly reveals, the real story is much more profound. Scratching below the surface, Fermaglich examines previously unexplored name change petitions to upend the clichés, revealing that in twentieth-century New York City, Jewish name changing was actually a broad-based and voluntary behavior: thousands of ordinary Jewish men, women, and children legally changed their names in order to respond to an upsurge of antisemitism. Rather than trying to escape their heritage or “pass” as non-Jewish, most name-changers remained active members of the Jewish community. While name changing allowed Jewish families to avoid antisemitism and achieve white middle-class status, the practice also created pain within families and became a stigmatized, forgotten aspect of American Jewish culture. This first history of name changing in the United States offers a previously unexplored window into American Jewish life throughout the twentieth century. A Rosenberg by Any Other Name demonstrates how historical debates about immigration, antisemitism and race, class mobility, gender and family, the boundaries of the Jewish community, and the power of government are reshaped when name changing becomes part of the conversation. Mining court documents, oral histories, archival records, and contemporary literature, Fermaglich argues convincingly that name changing had a lasting impact on American Jewish culture. Ordinary Jews were forced to consider changing their names as they saw their friends, family, classmates, co-workers, and neighbors do so. Jewish communal leaders and civil rights activists needed to consider name changers as part of the Jewish community, making name changing a pivotal part of early civil rights legislation. And Jewish artists created critical portraits of name changers that lasted for decades in American Jewish culture. This book ends with the disturbing realization that the prosperity Jews found by changing their names is not as accessible for the Chinese, Latino, and Muslim immigrants who wish to exercise that right today.
Author: Benzion C. Kaganoff
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1568219539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reference examines the history of Jewish forenames and surnames, tracing the origin of each name and the changes that have occured over generations.
Author: Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 932
ISBN-13: 9780881252972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexander Beider
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 1052
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judith K. Jarvis
Publisher: Panther`s Lodge Publishers
Published: 2018-05-10
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1985856565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom unlikely places like Scotland and the Appalachian Mountains to the Bible and archives of the Spanish Inquisition, this valuable resource published in 2018 is the first to cover the naming practices of Conversos, Marranos and secret Jews along with more familiar Central and Eastern European Jewries. It includes Joseph Jacobs’ classic work on Jewish Names, a chapter on Scottish clans and septs, thousands of Sephardic and Ashkenazic surnames from early colonial records and Rabbi Malcolm Stern’s 445 Early American Jewish Families. Appendix A contains 400 surnames from the Greater London cemetery Adath Yisroel. Appendix B provides a combined name index to the indispensable When Scotland Was Jewish, Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America and The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales, all by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates. It contains 276 pages and has an extensive index and bibliography. “Up-to-date and valuable research tool for genealogists and those interested in Jewish origins.” —Eran Elhaik, Assistant Professor, The University of Sheffield
Author: Avner Benner
Publisher:
Published: 2018-08-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781716694479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA manual to assist rabbis in their execution of ritual and ceremony by Rabbi Hyman E. Goldin (1881-1972).
Author: Shmuel Gorr
Publisher: Avotaynu
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book shows the roots of more than 1,200 Jewish personal names. It shows all Yiddish/Hebrew variants of a root name with English transliteration. Hebrew variants show the exact spelling including vowels. Footnotes explain how these variants were derived. An index of all variants allows you to easily locate the name in the body of book. Also presented are family names originating from personal names."--Publisher description.
Author: Simon Stranger
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2020-05-19
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0525657371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extraordinary work of fiction, inspired by historical events--an exquisitely crafted double portrait of a Nazi war criminal and a family savaged by World War II, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called home On a street in modern-day Norway, a writer kneels with his son and tells him that according to Jewish tradition, a person dies twice: first when their heart stops beating, and then again the last time their name is read or thought or said. Before them is a stone engraved with the name Hirsch Komissar, the boy's great-great-grandfather who was murdered by Nazis. The man who sent Komissar to his death was one of Norway's vilest traitors, Henry Oliver Rinnan, a Nazi double agent who set up headquarters in an unspectacular suburban house and transformed the cellar into a torture chamber for resisters, a place to be avoided and feared. That is until Komissar's own son, Gerson, and his young wife, Ellen, take up residence in the house after the war. While their daughters spend a happy childhood playing in the same rooms where some of the most heinous acts of the occupation occurred, the weight of history threatens to pull the couple apart. In Keep Saying Their Names, Simon Stranger uses this unusual twist of fate to probe five generations of intimate and global history, seamlessly melding fact and fiction, creating a brilliant lexicon of light and dark. The resulting novel reveals how evil is born in some and courage in others--and seeks to keep alive the names of those lost.
Author: Alfred J. Kolatch
Publisher: Jonathan David Publishers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780824604066
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