Re: What's in a Name?

real-not-anti-spam-address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (D.M. Procida) writes:

David Uri <daviduriVEST@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And how on earth could it be dangerous to try to tell whether someone is
Jewish from their name?

I am reminded of the old joke (regulars of a.h.j. and r.h.j. will know
it well) that that has the punchline, "Iceberg, Goldberg, what's the
difference?"

I can't imagine that there are many people who aren't familiar with that
joke, but I still can't see many *dangers* in *trying* to tell whether
someone is Jewish or not by their names.

You might as well claim it's dangerous to try to tell whether some is
Italian or female.

Daniele


Well, the danger is that you might get it wrong. I understand that
you might have some experience in that... :-)

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