Sunday, July 26, 2009

Macht keine Dummheiten

When Shmuel Goldfein — it means something like Sam the Moneygrubber — made aliyah from Plotsk, he changed his last name to Barak (Lightning), and named his son Ehud, which means something like ‘popular.’ Sam the Moneygrubber begat Popular Lightning.
-- Tony Horowitz quotes Rich Cohen in a review of Israel is Real.

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