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To: BenLurkin

Interesting multicultural name there. Russian first name and German or Jewish last name.


3 posted on 02/09/2022 4:33:35 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

“Interesting multicultural name there. Russian first name and German or Jewish last name.”

Only because most of the famous Russian Jews took other names.

Perhaps a little study on the Russian revolution and Russian Jew influence in our media and Hollywood is in order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia#Jews_in_the_revolutionary_movement

Ever here of Benjamin Wonsal? Nope. He changed his name to Warner. The Warner brothers were Russian Jews.


8 posted on 02/09/2022 4:48:47 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: PAR35

Interesting story about European Jewish names:

https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/ashkenazic-names-2/

… Ashkenazic Jews were among the last Europeans to take family names. Some German-speaking Jews took last names as early as the 17th century, but the overwhelming majority of Jews lived in Eastern Europe and did not take last names until compelled to do so. The process began in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1787 and ended in Czarist Russia in 1844...


9 posted on 02/09/2022 4:51:06 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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