Trenton's Jews

  Origins of Jewish Names   Commentary by Dr. Gerhard Falk       Jewish Names Most Jewish names in this country are derived from Hebrew, German and Yiddish sources or are efforts to find a near English equivalent for an obvious Jewish name. There are of course Jewish names used in the Sephardic community which have no relationship to the German-Yiddish history, which is the heritage of 85% of American Jews. In the ancient world, Jews used Hebrew names related to such prefixes as  Eli, El  or  Jahoo,  all connoting G’d. Later, under Greek influence, Greek names were combined with Hebrew or Aramaic names. Thereafter, the Latin language, spoken by the Romans (Latin refers to Latinus, the most ancient king of southern Italy, south of Rome) was influential among Jews and resulted in the Latinization of Jewish names. Among the ancients, many people had only one name and used Son or

  YIDDISH NAMES Yiddish names may be divided into two groups:  regular Yiddish names, and Yiddish nicknames (diminutive, familiar, or pet names).  In the rabbinic and research literature, legal regular Yiddish names were usually called kinuim, although the term kinui was sometimes used for other regular Yiddish names which were not normally used to form legal double names.  In this document about Jewish given names, the term "Yiddish name" is used for the first group (legal or not), while the term "Yiddish nickname" is used for the second group.  The intent is to express the importance and legitimacy of normal Yiddish names and at the same time to distinguish them from diminutive and other such names which were and are used today within the family, social community, and other close venues.  Eastern European Jewry created enormous numbers of Yiddish nicknames, expressing the closeness of the family and community, as well as the warm intimacy of the Yiddish language

1973 1960 Dedication of 'New' Greenwood House   1973 Sam Lavine Certificate from Skelton School early 1900s

ADATH ISRAEL WOMEN OF YEAR Ms.   Frank Kohn 1926-27 Lerner Pearlman 1927-28 Rose Miller 1928-29 Rose Gilinsky 1929-31 Ida Glickman 1931-32 Sadie Gross 1932-33 June Lewis Kimmel 1933-35 Mollie Fox 1935-36 Alice Rosen 1936-37 Dora Eisenstat 137-38 Sadie Abramsohn 1938-40 Ada Altman 1940-42 Gertrude Ruderman 1942-44 Sadie Swern 1944-46 Rhoda Nachumson Frazier 1946-48 Jean Bernstein 1948-49 Lillian Pincus 1949-52 Vivian Popkin 1952-54 Sylvia Lehman 1954-57 Fannie K. Miller 1957-58 Charlotte Rothschild 1959-61 Maxine Suval 1961-64 Rita Rosenberg 1964-67 Sydell Levine 1970-72 Sandra Nussblatt 1972-74 Rita F. Globus 1975-77 Barbara Lavin   1977-79 Barbara Millner 1979-84 Ruth Lubitz 1987-88 Linda Warren 1989-90 Judy Gelfand 1990-92 Carol Schwartz 1992-96 Selma Siskowitz 1996-97 Roni Wolff 1996-1997 Judith Kay 1998-2000 Lisa Glickman 2000-2006 Janice Berger 2007-2008