Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1964 — Page 6
Hm Notional Jewish POST and OPINION
Friday, April 10, 1964
Your Name
By NORBERT PEARLROTH
Dear Mr. Pearlroth: My father was born in Kornica Podole, Russia. His original name was “Herstein.” What does this name mean for a Russian Jew? — A. Herstein, Chicago. “Herstein” is a patronymic, a family naune derived from the given name of an ancestor. The ancestor in question bore the name of Hersh (a stage). This is a byname of Naftali. The original Haftali was the son of the patriarch Jacob who according to the Bible (Genesis 19:21) compared his son to a hind or a stag. When your ancestor in 1804 was directed to assume a permanent family name, he took the name Hersh (Hers) added the word
“stein” and made it Herstein.
Dear Mr. Pearlroth: My father’s name was “Mazelsky.” He came from Bialystok. What does this name mean? —
William Mazel, Norfolk, Va.
“Mazelsky” is not of geographical origin as H appears to be. Instead, it is connected with the Hebrew word “Mazal” (Mazel) which is translated as a constellation or good fortune. The terminal “sky” means “a dweller in” so that Mazelsky can be rendered in English as “a dweller in good fortune.” (Do you want to know what your name means? Send all queries to Mr. Pealroth, National Jewish Post and Opinion, 79 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.)
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The Woman's Viewpoint
Mixing Sunday School Groups Can Discourage Intermarriage
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marriage. At one point the editor concluded that Jewish parents, no matter what their differences in other matters, appear to be uniformtheir children to
choose a Jewish mate. This being the case, I have been trying to get up the nerve to propose a suggestion to our Jewish communities across the land. It takes nerve to speak up because of two factors: (1) the hands-off policy today, meaning parents are expected to hold their peace when it comes to the young people choosing a mate; and (2) status within the Jewish community, meaning some Jews consider themselves better than other Jews and would frown on their child joining in matrimony with a member of such an inferior (well, socially, anyway) family. This situation is epitomized by the category of Jews (you’ve heard this, haven’t you?) who only mix with Jews who don’t have anything to do with other
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these two facts of life. Our starting point shall be the Sunday school. You can’t hope to work with young Jewish people whose parents care so little about being part of Klal Israel that they don’t even bother to send their children to Sunday school. Nor can much be accomplished with the afternoon community Hebrew schools, unless the attendance there is different from ours. We are not criticizing the work of our fine Hebrew school, where students get somewhat more than they can on Sunday morning, since there is more time to work with them. But the attendance here is neither large nor representative. Only a token number of young people from the Reform group are to be found here, and few girls of any denomination, though more from the Conservative congregation. SO, let’s go back to the Sunday schools. Our goal is to help these young people become better acquainted. Under the present setup they won’t be likely to, what with formal class sessions for a couple of hours MIAMI BEACH
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