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

On 12/29/09 1:12 AM, "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca> wrote:

> Gerhard... Does this mean that no-one named Barenboim could possibly be
> a Czernowitzer? That seems a very strange thing if true.
>
> Hypothetically, could not a male ancestor of DB's have moved to Cz. from
> Bessarabia; not change his name from the original Yiddish
> (transliterated) spelling; then while still there, marry and make little
> Barenboims? Would these offspring not be Barenboim Czernowitzers?
>
> If not, what exactly is a Czernowitzer?
>
> jerome

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