Holiday Good Cheer

Friday, September 7, 1956—THE DETR OIT JEWIS H NE

Happy New Year To All Our
Friends and Patrons

KOW KOW INN

Specializing in American Food
Famous for All Chinese Native Food
Real Cantonese Family Dinners
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CARRY-OUT SERVICE

Season's Best Wishes

DEL-MAR PIZZERIA

Pizza - Barbecued Ribs and Chicken
Italian and American Foods

Sat.,. Sun., Holidays: 2 P.M. to 3:15 A.M. — Closed Mondays

KE. 1-9485

20418 West 7 Mile

Delivery and Take-Out Service

Best Wishes to All Our Friends and Customers
For a Most Happy New Year

CAESAR'S PIZZERIA

Steaks and Chickens Broiled in Butter
Frog Legs — Shrimp
Carry-Out Service, Call KE. 4-9290
Hours: Weekdays, 4 P.M. to 3 A.M.—Sundays, 1 P.M. to 1
Closed Monday

A.M.

KE. 4-9290

new gear Qreetin,gs

MILLER BROS.
POULTRY CO.

TE 3-4800

1900 WILKINS -

Warm Wishes on New Year's

CHAS. A. RUDOLPH

Fresh and Smoked Meats
Gratiot Central Market

1429 Gratiot

Shop No. 6

WO. 3-5085

Season's Best Wishes

CASS QUICK SERVICE

LAUNDRY & CLEANERS
Cleaning - Pressing - Repairing

TE. 2-7782

4704 Cass at Forest

Season s Oest tVisAes

RELIANCE PAINT AND VARNISH
MANUFACTURING COMPANY

433 LELAND

New Year's Greetings

COLLINS AUTO ELECTRIC

Royal Oak

25102 John R.

New Year's Best Wishes

Arrow Chemical Products Co., Inc.

TA. 5-3777

2067 St. Anne

Holiday Greetings to All

PRESSURE VESSEL SERVICE

Distributor of Bulk Muriatic Acid

6473 ANSTELL

EVENING SERVICE

(Copyright, 1956, JTA, Inc.)

SEVEN at SOUTHFIELD

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Mimeographing Service — Photostatic Copies
Telephone Answering Service — Public Stenographer

By JONATHAN SHILOH

TO. 8-7551

322 W. McNICHOLS

EDITH E. JONES
SECRETARIAL SERVICE

Highlights Israel's
New 'Revolution'

WA. 1-1200

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JERUSALEM—A quiet revo-
lution, which never makes
headlines and which probably
never will, is running its course
in Israel. It is the changing of
"Diaspora" family names — the
Finkelsteins, Smiths and Dos-
trovskys—to Hebrew names.
The latter are generally
sought among the wealth of
names found in the Bible or are
coined afresh from the living
language.
The move received new im-
petus recently when the Min-
ister of Interior, Israel Bar-Ye-
huda, introduced a bill in the
Knesset making obligatory the
adoption of "family" names. The
future law, aimed at simplifying
the keeping of vital statistics,
will affect many Jews raised in
primitive Arab countries or
Iran. Many of them not only
do not have family names—they
do not see the need for them. .
Among certain Kurdish tribes
in Iran, a grandson takes his
grandfather's first name as his
surname. The grandson's wife,
however, does not take her hus-
band's surname, but her father's
first n a m e, as her married
name.
But this is a sidelight on the
entire problem. For it is the
Jews coming from the west-
ern world, although not af-
fected by the future law, who
are conducting the revolution
by •Hebraizing their surnames.
(Most Oriental families have
fine Biblical names as family
names—if they have them at
all.)
Not so the European and
American Jews. Their family
names reflect their lives in the
many countries through which
they passed.
They derived their surnames
in many fashions. For example,
many called themselves after
the cities in which they lived.
This explains the Londons, Ber-
liners, Danzigs. Others blended
with their vocation: Sandler
(c o b b 1 e r) or Kantorowitch
(Cantor), while many called
themselves after some personal
Characteristic: Klein (small) or
,Schwartz (black).
In 1787, Joseph II of Austria
ordered all persons without sur-
names to adopt them. This ex-
plains the great influx of Ger-
manic name s: Frischwasser,
Wasserman, Goldschmidt. To-
day, these names are gradually
being shed for Hebrew ones.
Soon after the establishment
of the State it was almost man-
datory for civil servants to He-
braize their names. To aid them
in doing this, as well as to draw
up a guide, the Hebrew Lan-
guage Committee (predecessor
of the Hebrew Language Acad-
emy) drew up a set of rules
plus a list of 4,000 new Hebrew
family names.
The rules are simplicity in
themselves. For instance, a
name may be -.Hebraized by
changing the vowels or only
one consonant: Braver be-
comes Barur, Brown becomes
Bar-On. Arber becomes Arbel;
and Kovatch becomes Kovea.
And why not simply shorten
a -name? Joacobowitch becomes
Jacob which is only one step
from the Hebrew pronunciation
of Ya'acov.
One of the most popular ways
is to adopt a father's first name
.as your family one. This re-
quires the addition of the pre-
fix ben (son). President Ben-
Zvi did this.
Another method, which car-
ries with it a stark reminder of
the War of Independence, is to
call yourself after a son or
daughter who fell. Israel today
has many who have immortal-
ized a fallen hero in this* man-
ner:
And finally, when none of
these suggestions are pleasing
or acceptable, the Bible may be
opened and a name selected.

WO 1-1691

1310 BROADWAY
If No Answer TE 3-4100

Holiday's Most Cordial Greetings

Inc.

Family Creamery Co

Dealers in Milk and Dairy Products

TO. ,7 1000

9025 Cardoni

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Greetings on the New Year

ST. CLAIR HOSPITAL

7850 EAST JEFFERSON

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Best Wishes to All Our Friends
and Patron's for a Happy New Year

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MERCURIO BROS.

MELLO-RIPE BANANAS
TA 5-1525 - 6
140 TWELFTH STREET

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Sincerest Holiday Greetings

H. P. HOLIES

Realtors

Inc.

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Specializing in Management and Sales
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of Investment Properties, Including Acreage and Farms

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WO 1-7101

Detroit, Mich.

607 SHELBY ST.

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New Year Greetings to Our
Friends and Patrons of the Jewish Faith

1 ROBERT C. PROUDFOOT . i
Electrical Contractor
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BR. 3-1860 i

i 10300 Curtis

Best Wishes for a Happy New Year
To Our Friends and Patrons

HEATH PRINTING CO.

Social and Commercial Printing

TY. 5-5620

4235 McGraw

New Year's Best Wishes

Pelton Distributing Co.

Wholesale Only
Jobbers of Heating Supplies - Distributors

R. G. PELTON

DETROIT, MICH.

7325-7327 TIREMAN

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Greetings and Best Wishes

CENTURY GRINDERS

0. D. Grinders

Long and Short Runs 10" x 36'

6529 Russell

TR. 3-9188

- New Year's Greetings

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Redford Screw Products, Inc.

23920 Graham, Redford

KE. 3-6690

