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Mosby

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1. FWIW

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:20 PM

Mar 25

Her families "real" name wasn't Greenstein, because Jews didn't use surnames. We were forced to adopt last names starting in the late 1700s in Europe.

Even today we use our hebrew names in addition to our secular names because our real name is in hebrew using the "son of, daughter of" construction.

My real name is Moshe Ben Yisrael v'Yocheved.

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