Posted on 06/18/2014 11:04:47 AM PDT by blam
* 80% of the Jewish immigrants to the US are Ashkenazi Jews as was Albert Einstein.
Sephardic Jews claim they are numero uno
There are really only three surnames that are specifically Jewish in nature: variations on Cohen, Levy and Israel.
what about ice”berg” lol?
And you know this how?
Besides being grammatically incorrect, it smells racist.
Wasserman — water carrier
That sure fits!
And just where is your source material for those claims???
This article acts as if some how the naming convention was unique to the Jewish people. Scots and Scandinavians as well as Spaniards (and probably lots of others that I can’t think of) have used a similar naming convention. Some who immigrated to the US were made to take more Americanized names others were not.
And for your edification here is Albert in his own words
“Einstein was raised by secular Jewish parents. In his Autobiographical Notes, Einstein wrote that he had gradually lost his faith early in childhood:
. . . I came—though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents—to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment—an attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been tempered by a better insight into the causal connections. It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the ‘merely personal,’ from an existence dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings. Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation, and I soon noticed that many a man whom I had learned to esteem and to admire had found inner freedom and security in its pursuit. The mental grasp of this extra-personal world within the frame of our capabilities presented itself to my mind, half consciously, half unconsciously, as a supreme goal. Similarly motivated men of the present and of the past, as well as the insights they had achieved, were the friends who could not be lost. The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.”
later
did not take last names until compelled to do so.
Because of this prior to 1814 you look at church records, not govt records.
It is my understanding that many Jewish names were picked by German border officials who couldn’t pronounce the strange names from more-eastern countries such as Poland. They were often derisory for the Germans’ own amusement, such as Weisskopf (Whitehead) for especially dark people. or Goldman for especially poor and ragged immigrants, or Rosenblum (Rose-flower) for an especially smelly individual, etc.
Ping!
Wasserman? Word is she flunked the test...repeatedly.
Both of them know nothing.
ping
Vogelsang?
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