Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site moscom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!ritcv!moscom!de From: de@moscom.UUCP (Dave Esan) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Avrum Message-ID: <266@moscom.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 23:24:03 EST Article-I.D.: moscom.266 Posted: Sat Dec 15 23:24:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 02:14:26 EST Distribution: net Organization: MOSCOM Corp, E Rochester, NY, USA Lines: 11 Being the son of Avrum I am curious as to the original posting that said that it was not a legal name for a Jew. My father and five second cousins were all named Avrum after a mutual multi-great grandfather. My relatives in the Ukraine and Bessarabia were not exactly wild-eyed radicals who would knowingly violated tradition or bubbe-meinsehs (for the uninitiated those are grandmother's tales that have basis in fact). If you think Avrum has problems consider Cain (a murderer), Amnon (an incestuous rapist), or even David (a usurper, murderer, and adulterer). David ben Avrum (mosom!de)