Re: Motis-Mendl/Emanuel

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Benzy wrote:

I live in Israel, where ...... about the only chance you
have of meeting someone who answers "Mordechai" to the question "What's your
name?" is to wander in Haredi neighborhoods. This applies, by the way, to
non-Ashkenazim too.

That surprises me -- because the name Mordechai used to be very common also among non-Haredim. It occurs in the families of both of my parents. It was much used in my maternal Dutch-Jewish Ashkenazi family, where it went back to an 18th-century ancestor described only as "Mordechai mi-Amsterdam" in the record of his son's marriage at the Great Synagogue in London in 1793. That was my gg gf. Both he and his grandson, my gf, were named Mark Marks -- both having the Hebrew name Mordechai -- and of course the surname Marks likewise stemmed ultimately from that name.

On the other side, my paternal g gf (from Poland) was also a Mordechai -- as I learned from my zayde's gravestone in London. So my son Mark (Mordechai) was named after a whole bunch of non-Haredi ancestors.

Judith Romney Wegner
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