Someone should make a list of the Hebrew names of notable Jewish scholars and academics who are better known by their shem chol.
Let's start.
Cecil Roth - Betzalel.
Salo W. Baron - Shalom.
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#2 On Hirsch's 19 Letters and a controversy about the meaning of it's Hebrew title
#3 On the important role played by printing never-published old works.
#4 Disapproving of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch's predilection for German
#5 What does Morenu really mean?
#6 On facing the truths of history and autobiography
#7 On alienation from his teachers, and a public retraction
#8 To what does "Nothing Jewish is Alien to Me" refer?
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Mississippi - Mordechai
ReplyDeleteFred - Chaim
Macdowell - ?
Mississippi - מיינסטר
ReplyDeleteFred - פרוים
MacDowell - איש לייקווד
The secret's out!
DeleteMartin Buber - Mordechai
ReplyDeleteFranz Rosenzweig - Levy
Richard Cohen - Yerachmiel
ReplyDeleteMarc Shapiro - Melech
Adolf Jellinek - Aharon
ReplyDeleteMoritz Steinschneider - Moshe
Gershom Scholem's shem koydesh was Gerhardt. (Haha.)
ReplyDeleteHaha!
DeleteLeopold Zunz - Yom Tov Lippman Tzuntz
ReplyDeleteIsadore Twersky - Yitzchak Asher Twersky
Curly Howard = Yehuda Leib ben Shlomo Nosson Halevi
ReplyDeletehttp://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=511
Top that one!
Umberto Cassuto = Moshe David
ReplyDeleteוידאל די טולושא (Vidal of Tolosa)
ReplyDeletea.k.a as the author of Magid Mishne
We don't know what his Hebrew name was.
DeleteIsn't Vidal Chaim?
Deletedoes anybody have Moritz Steinschneider's hebrew name?
ReplyDeleteMoshe
DeleteBonastruc de Porta = Moshe
ReplyDeleteNoted scholar Gene Simmons - Chaim Weiz
ReplyDeleteDF
Alexander Kohut = Chanoch Yehuda
ReplyDeleteMarcus Jastrow = Mordechai
Louis Finkelstein = Eliezer Arye
Heinrich Graetz = Tzvi Hirsh
Franz Kafka = Anshel
Louis Ginsberg- Levi.
DeleteIn one of his books on the Rav, R' Schachter refers to his colleague "Resh-Kaf-Bet". Unless you knew that Kenny Brander was "Catriel," you'd be lost.
IIRC it is R. Kasriel Yehoshua (Kenneth J.) Brander.
DeleteYou mean Krusty, not Kristy.
ReplyDeleteHerschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski.
ReplyDeleteHarry Houdini = Should I continue?
ReplyDeleteKirk Douglas - Isser Danielovitch
ReplyDeletePaul Muni - Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund
Sammy Glick - Shmuel Shmelke Glick
Curly was a yachsen - "Horowitz"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5831094
It seems we have veered away from scholars and academics, so here are some ancients:
ReplyDeletePhilo - Yedidiah
Josephus - Yosef ben Matityahu
Paul the christian - Shaul
R. Akiva - Akavya
Resh Lakish - Shimon ben Lakish
Mar bar Rav Ashi - Tavyomi
And of course,
Esther - Hadassah
Akiva is Aramaic for Yaakov.
DeleteMordechai ain't Jewish either. One Midrash has him as Malachi.
Now, the other way.
ReplyDeleteImagine if some of our greats would have emigrated to the US via Ellis Island and given Americanized names. People like Moses Maimonides would have become Morris Macintosh.
I will stop here before this gets irreverant.
One example is enough.
Harry Wolfson- צבי הירש
ReplyDeleteAvicebron- Ibn Gabriol
Saul Lieberman- Shaul
Tobias Stern- שו"ת השביט
Peter- שמעון
Louis Jacobs- לייב
Jonathan Sacks-יעקב צבי
How about:
ReplyDeleteSamson Raphael Hirsch: Shimshon ben Rephael. (A common practice.)
Shamshon, not Shimshon.
DeleteRight, forgot to mention that point.
DeleteProf. Louis H. Feldman - Magister :).
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily.
ReplyDeleteI meant to reply to MP's "Shamshon."
ReplyDeleteSomeone sent me a copy of a German letter (in Hebrew letters) which the patriarch sent to his grandson - he signed Shamshon, with nikkud.
DeleteRichard Tucker - Reuven Ticker
ReplyDeleteHarold Arlen - Haim Arluk
"..he signed Shamshon, with nikkud."
ReplyDeleteNo way! Maybe his pen slipped.
Way! It's specific and, I suppose, interesting. I'll keep you posted.
DeleteJust found a reference to this letter in your previous Shamshon/Shimshon post. Fotheringay-Phipps, who had a copy, noted that "he wrote the letter using German words and Hebrew letters. So it might be that he used his German name Shamshon, but that his Hebrew name could have been Shimshon." So I still wonder how he was called up to the Torah in Frankfurt-am-Main.
ReplyDeleteNope. It was Shamshon.
DeleteThe Yekkes were careful not to name after somebody with a shortned life. Hence the slight change.
Herman Wouk = ?
ReplyDeleteRabbi Louis Jacobs = יהודה לייב
ReplyDeleteFalk Katz = Yehoshua (Derisha and Me'iras Aynayim, among other)
ReplyDeleteLöwe of Prague = Yehudah (Maharal)
Leo Levi = Yehudah
"If you look for Master Leo Abarbenel, you won't find your man. Your man, in fact, being Yehuda ben Yitzhak Abravanel, also known as Judah Leon Abrabanel, Isaacus Abravanel, or even simply as Leone Ebreo—Leon the Hebrew. Damn those polyonymous Jews."
ReplyDeleteFrom: http://vunex.blogspot.co.il/2008/04/armchair-history.html
Mattisyahu = Mathew Miller
ReplyDeleteMarvin Hier = Moshe Chaim (learned that in this month's zman mag)
Bob Dylan = Zimmerman (Jewish 1st name?)
Norman Lamm = Nochum (i think)
Richard Joel = Yerachmiel
Abba Hillel Silver = Avrohom Silver
Jack Benny = Binyomin Kubelsky
Leon Trotsky = Lev Davidovitch Bronshtein
Oh, Moses Mendelssohn: Moshe ben Menachem. :-)
ReplyDeleteMarcus Jastrow = Mordechai
ReplyDelete