Re: A Yiddish Lesson

[cyril robinson <lunar...>]

There's another way Rabinowitz can be changed to Robinson. According to my 
family folklore, an uncle about 1910 or 15 wanted to get a job on the 
Pennsylvania RR. At the time, the  didn't hire Jews. They had a family 
conference, changed their name to Robinson and that uncle spent his working 
life working on the RR. A further wrinkle was that my father as an 
insurance agent went on a strike against the Metropolitan Insurance 
Company, which then blacklisted him. So as to get a job again in the 
insurance field, my father changed his name to Roberson. I then had a 
different name from my father. Some people thought (because Roberson 
sounded mroe Jewish than Robinson) that I had changed my name so it would 
appear less Jewish. The vagaries of being Jewish. Cyril Robinson
At 08:28 AM 11/15/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Robinson is derived from Rabinowitz a la Ellis Island (or so my father told
>my wife, after feeding me a story about English relatives for about 30
>years).
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>George (ne Robinson) Robinson
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