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I'm watching the Barbara Walters "Finding Your Roots" episode right now, and it says his name was Tzvi Getzel Waremwasser. We're showing Hersz Getzel Warmwasser.
The discrepancy in the surname is normal enough, but are Tzvi and Hersz interchangeable?
Here's info from the "Finding Your Roots" book: https://books.google.com/books?id=IDVcBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=...
Good question, Private User. I really don't know so I googled it.
According to this source, "Tzvi; its Yiddish calque Hersh". Hersh is very close to Hersz. But are they the same?
https://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/givennames/slide47.html
On a different site I found this, "I was under the impression that Hirsch meant "deer" which would be a translation of Tzvi, the name that often goes with Naftali"
http://www.genami.org/en/culture/origin-of-jewish-names.php
Thanks for replying, Linda!
I guess it comes down to which form(s) he personally used. In the episode, they say the documentation trail says "Tzvi" -- but if there's a source for "Hersz," we should include both names. Can we figure out where the "Hersz" comes from?
It looks like Ron Abiri added the "Hersz," so maybe he remembers the source.
Since this is out of my area of versions of names, I'm fine with whichever name is used for him.
Hopefully Ron Abiriwill know.