by Guest Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:18 am
'orrible bastard wrote: (polskaGOLA) wrote:Umm, you don't have to go back anywhere.
Lerner is a very common German last name today.
Abramovich or Polish version Abramowicz are fairly common names in Russia/Ukraine/Poland.
Fiszman ffs uses the Polish digraph 'sz'.
Just because some Jewish immigrants from Germany/Poland/Russia with those fairly common names moved to Israel doesn't mean those names are suddenly Jewish.
It's like saying that 'Rajesh' or 'Mohamed' are English names.
Lerner is also a very common Jewish name outside of Germany! i wonder why that is? you keep mentioning all the Jews who went to Israel, what about all the ones who came to England and have never set foot in Israel? we took in tens if not hundreds of thousands of Jews from around Europe leading up to, during and after WW2. most stayed. alot changed their names but not so much that you couldn't associate the new name to the old. having a obvious Germanic sounding name, no matter how Jewish you were wasn't a great idea at the time!
names like Levy, Lerner, Gold, Freeman, Fisher & Hall are very popular names with British and American Jews. i went to school with 2 Fiszman's. if an Englishman is named Fiszman you can be 99% sure hes a jew and as Danny Fiszman is English im pretty sure he is.
As for Abramovich & Usmanov, they would have got Russian names in much the same way as David Gold ended up with an Anglocised name and it is is fairly common knowledge that the Russian & Uzbek are jews too.
As for the Mohammed comment, well if ever Christian Europeans need to blend in with Muslims to avoid persecution, then perhaps Mo will be a common name on the mean streets of Leighton Buzzard! until then it's nothing like David Gold's parents changing their name from Goldenstein for fear of retribution!
Jews left for England/America all the same as they had left for Israel.
Well how about Jakub Fiszman? The Polish-German millionaire that got kidnapped and murdered. He was not Jewish. Like I said, some jews have names like that, but it doesn't mean at all they are Jewish names.
Just because Abramovich is Jewish does not mean at all the his name is Jewish.
I guess these are all Jewish names as well right? :
Borowski
Edelman
Anielewicz
Urban
Bauman
Kaminski
Landowski
Horowicz
Polanski
Skrzynecki
Brzechwa
Ginczarek
Korczak
Janowski
I took those names off Wikipedia's list of famous Jews. Do you think these names are all common Jewish names?
Guess what they all have in common? They are all
NOT Jewish names. Not at all. They are all Polish names.
Usmanov is not Jewish.
Lerner is a very common German name in Germany. (And I can assure you, they aren't Jews
)
I know alot of jews changed their names to more anglicized versions, Jews have been doing so for centuries! But it doesn't mean those names are Jewish, not at all.