RE: A Yiddish Lesson

[Leonard Koenick <lkoenick...>]

And not to forget (pun intended) the famous Sean Ferguson or C.D. Allen

Leonard Koenick 

-----Original Message-----
From: George Robinson [mailto:grcomm (at) concentric(dot)net] 
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:38 PM
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: A Yiddish Lesson

Ah, the Jewish Robinsons -- we're everywhere. (Jackie, Brooks, Mrs.)
g

The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
   --Mark Twain
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From: "cyril robinson" <lunar (at) siu(dot)edu>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: A Yiddish Lesson


>
> 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).
> >
> >George (ne Robinson) Robinson
> >
> >The man who does not read good books
> >has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
> >    --Mark Twain
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Cyril D. Robinson
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