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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Subject: another correction (was Jewish names)
- Organization: CompuData Inc.
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:43:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.214318.4540@compu.com>
- Summary: from Morgenthau's family history
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- I've caught myself in another mistatement of fact.
-
- In order to check on what I thought I had read I went back to the book to find
- out what it actually was.
-
- Henry Morgenthau III writes in his family history that the first name of
- record was Moses (no not that one). This one was born in 1773 in Gleusdorf,
- Bavaria. He says that according to laws established by Napoleon, Jews had to
- take names upon becoming a citizen of a state. Obviously we are talking
- German states under French rule. In Bavaria the Jews were granted citizenship
- in 1813 and it is likely that Moses then took his name. His family tradition
- has it that the name was only thought up while waiting in line at the townhall
- where they were assigning names to the new citizens. There he stood in the
- pre-dawn hour in the morning dew ...
-
- I obviously mixed something up as I thought this naming process happened much
- earlier. Perhaps different German states had different rules. But it bothers
- me when I speak without the facts.
-
- Fred
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