Yes, indeed, most interesting. Thank you, dear Jerome, for sharing this article with all of us. Me too, I was reproducing this fake story over the years and I'm happy that Alexander Beider dispelled this myth.
By the way, Alexander Beider is a first-class expert, and together with Stephen P. Morse, he developed the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm, which is widely used by genealogists. Our Radautz BMD Index Databases
Marriages:
http://www.reisch-family.net/SevenSealsLukePHP/SevenSealsMarriages.html
Deaths:
http://www.reisch-family.net/SevenSealsRadautzDeathIndex/SearchForm.html
so thoroughly created and implemented by Bruce, were developed using the One-Step Search Tool Generator on the Stephen P. Morse website [
https://stevemorse.org/].
Edgar Hauster
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From: bounce-122185745-8322570_at_list.cornell.edu <bounce-122185745-8322570_at_list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Irene Fishler <irenef_at_netvision.net.il>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 18:33
To: 'jerome schatten'; 'Czernowitz Discussion Group'
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Did Austro-Hungarian Jews buy their surnames?
Thank you, dear Jerome,
Very interesting.
There are more articles by Alexander Beider on the site.
Best wishes,
Irene
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[mailto:bounce-122182951-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of jerome
schatten
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2018 6:31 PM
To: Czernowitz Discussion Group
Subject: [Cz-L] Did Austro-Hungarian Jews buy their surnames?
An article in the Forvertz (Forward) by Alexander Beider about Jewish
surnames that you might find interesting:
https://forward.com/opinion/391341/did-jews-buy-their-last-names/?utm_conten
t=opinion_Newsletter_MostPopular_Position-2&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=e
mail&utm_campaign=Opinion%20-%20automated%20-%20monday%202018-01-08&utm_term
=Opinion
or:
https://tinyurl.com/y998kozf
Best,
jerome
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