Re: meanwhile, back at Ellis Island . . .

[Seth Austen <klezmusic...>]

on 2/28/01 10:44 AM, George Robinson at GRComm (at) concentric(dot)net wrote:


> For years and years my father would tell me that the Robinson came from
> the English branch of the family -- and in fact I do have English
> cousins, but their name is Green and like a complete schmuck I never
> questioned this little discrepancy. Then one night my wife (then of only
> a few months) and my father are shmoozing in my parents house and she
> asks, "Robinson, what kind of Jewish name is that?" and he replies,
> "Well we think it was Rabinowitz and they changed it at Ellis Island."
> I'm in the doorway when I hear this and I yell at him, "What happened to
> the English branch of the family?" He replies, "What are you talking
> about? Their name is Green."

Great story. My father remarried to a Green, her family is Jewish from
Kentucky, probably no relation to your Greens...

>>> 
>>> George Richard Robinson (Now THERE'S a really authentic Jewish name!)

Seth Austen (another of those really Jewish sounding last names, originally
was Aisenberg and Grafman before it got changed. It really drove me crazy at
KlezKanada, all these people who thought I was a goy, oy vey)
 
-- 
Seth Austen

http://www.sethausten.com
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