[Avodah] changing names

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Tue May 1 14:10:59 PDT 2012


On 1/05/2012 3:33 PM, Eli Turkel wrote:
> As an aside Herzl is a last name.

Not really.  He had it as a last name, but be'etzem it's a first name,
presumably that of his grandfather or great-grandfather when German Jews
took surnames; and some people today give it as a first name to honour him.

-- 
Zev Sero        "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
		                            - Julian Simon



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