Re: [Cz-L] Barenboim-was Cz-Digest

Hi
Find attached a description of Daniel Barnboim's father:
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/albnz/01360627653914499409457/AR-EDI-1974-00060-30.pdf .
I agree that Mimi's family was by large an exception of the tendency to
Germanize the names. The fact of adopting the German language and it's
reason was many times mentioned here. I don't think it had to do with being
rich. Our "Die Stimme" is in German and not Yiddish or Hebrew.
 Happy New Year
 Yosef Eshet, Raanana, Israel

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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>; "Gerhard Schreiber"
<gerhardrodica_at_aol.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Barenboim-was Cz-Digest

> Anyone who moved to Czernowitz before the end of WW1, would probably have
> been registered under a German or Germanized name. A Barenboim would have
> most likely become a Berenbaum or Birnenbaum.
> But there were exceptions; my maternal grandmother's maiden name was Resch
> and I believe it was not changed to Reisch till after WW1.
> Some of my relatives who were born during the Austro-Hungarian period were
> given Hebrew names which were not Germanized, such as Bruria and
> Yehoschua.
> According to family tradition, the clerk at the registry tried to convince
> my grandfather to give his children German names, but my grandfather would
> not agree and got his way.
>
> If you want to ascertain whether there were any Barenboims in Czernowitz
> before WW2, look at the address books which Edgar Hauster made available
> to
> us.
>
> Mimi
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