Abraham Simpson - Jewish?

In article <57a66e79-ee87-4b44-b133- [email]>, [email] says...

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Abraham Lincoln

Mr. Mvsevm

"[email]" wrote:

Wasn't it Lincolnstein before he changed it?

"[email]" wrote:

Booth would never have shot Lincoln without drinking brandy first. We must wipe out alcohol from everywhere, as a terrorist threat. Guns good, booze bad.

Moe: Who wants a bathtub mint julep?

(stereotypical rich Southerners raise hands)

[email] wrote:

In fact there was a period where American Protestants were adopting Old Testament names because they seemed pious and traditional, while American Jews were largely avoiding such names to better assimilate.

"Brett A. Pasternack" wrote:

I detect an emphasis in your statement that's offensive to anti-semites.

Yeah, that's how I wound up with the name "Aaron Louis Hirshberg". :-)

Oy vey.

Mr. Mvsevm

"Brett A. Pasternack" wrote in message news:[email]...

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Uh, excuse me but that "period" continues to this day. :-)

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Jeßus wrote:

There was the whole Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War in 1936, US volunteers fighting on the side of the Republicans (who were the good guys in that one).

Michael