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    1 year ago

    Nazi ass names like Applebaum

    Why you think it’s nazi? It’s a Jewish name, but weird, clearly from yiddish “Apfelbaum” but anglicized in first half? Should be “Appletree” if consistent. And anyone with a yiddish name no matter how changed should be anti-nazi and not anti-anti-nazi like she is.

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      It just sounded German as fuck with apfelbaum, which is what I also assumed the original name was before her family came to America (or whatever).

      But your point is taken and I will edit that portion out.

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        Jews in Austria and Germany (and in relevant parts of partitioned Poland) got their surnames administratively assigned by the government. Therefore most western Ashkenazi Jews have two-part names with popular parts including “Baum”, “Berg”, “Feld”, “Gold”, “Rosen”, “Apfel” etc. Here is interesting article about this, though only in polish.