And the most prominent may be Mountbatten, the former Battenbergs who
I knew of a family in Connecticut a number of years ago by the name
of Greenberg who performed early music together as Monteverdi Trio.
Clever translation, eh?
Leonard
good question, Howard :-) I phrased that badly, in order to avoid unnecessary
complications and details of my private life. Suffice it to say that I got
the information from, among others, my mother, who came from Prague and whose
maiden name, translated, was that of a type of orange. She had
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 14:19, Daniel Shoskes wrote:
Dear Daniel,
some answers because I saw nobody replied to you.
Things I have wondered about (and never thought to post as individual
questions):
1) What are the early signs that lute strings and frets need to be
replaced? (short of the
It occurred to me that Hans Judenkunig might have been a converted Jew (my
somewhat elderly 'Grove' has nothing to say about his origins). Certainly
converted Jews were frequently given names that made their origins clear to one and
all. When the Jews were finally allowed out of the ghettos in
At 05:56 03-12-2003 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It occurred to me that Hans Judenkunig might have been a converted Jew (my
somewhat elderly 'Grove' has nothing to say about his origins). Certainly
converted Jews were frequently given names that made their origins clear
to one and
all. When
It occurred to me that Hans Judenkunig might have been a converted Jew (my
somewhat elderly 'Grove' has nothing to say about his origins).
Hans Bahlow, Deutsches Namenlexikon, 1992 (15,000 entries), p. 265, explains that Jud
may
have been Jewish or non-Jewish. As for non-Jewish, Jud as well
Mathias writes: 'As opposed to that, converted Jews in those days would
rather have avoided hints of their provenance'. Of course I know what you mean, but
Jews who converted (or were forced to convert) were often not given the
chance to hide their origins, as I know from many Jewish friends,
Arne Keller wrote:
Hans Dagobert Bruger, in his Schule des Lautenspiels, Wolfenbuettel 1926,
explains the name Judenkunig in this way:
Der auffallende Name Judenkunig oder Judenkuenig (d.i. Juden-Koenig)
erklaert sich daraus, dass ein Ahnherr dieses Namens ihn als Beinamen wegen
seiner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as I know from many Jewish friends, whose names were
given them (on payment of the appropriate amount of money) after the
emancipation from the ghettos.
Hmm. Just how old are you?
G'day Daniel,
While others are fussing over facsimiles I'll have a go at your questions
1) What are the early signs that lute strings and frets need to be
replaced? (short of the obvious
late decomposition)
The 3 warning signs of an impending string change are
1) Your gut string is
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