re: #584 Sol Berdinowitz
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Yes, my granddad came to Iowa from Slovakia, but other brances of the family wound up all over the Midwest and Canada, I have another namesake who is a translator of books on Russian theology.
Which is amusing as I studied Russian and work as a translator.
i come from a family of -owitz’s, but my grandfather dropped his when he was graduating from college - supposedly in his yearbook it say that he “lost his ‘witz”