Re: "authentic" American music

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

Well, all I can say, Wolf, is, that is a grisly notion. (Elmer, I mean.)
But it could be worse, we could all have been named by the parents of
the man who created Gilligan's Island.
Sherwood Schwartz.

George Robinson

Kame'a Media wrote:
> 
> George Robinson wrote:
> 
> >  The Magnificent Seven, written by that nice Jewish
> > boy Elmer Bernstein. (And why would anyone name their kid Elmer?)
> >
> > George Robinson
> 
> As Jews began to enter the mainstream of American life and forgoing
> traditional Jewish names for more "American" ones,  a council
> of rabbis (possibly the Reform) actually published a list of acceptable and
> appropriate names for Jewish Americans. I think your answer may lie here.
> 
> Wolf

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