Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Wife of Chief Rabbi of the UK in 1906 Message-ID: <890@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 13:12:02 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.890 Posted: Thu Oct 31 13:12:02 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 17:46:26 EST Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 17 Summary: what's a "Yitta"? Strange question time... my grandmother, who passed away several months ago, was named Henrietta and known as Netta. Her Hebrew name, apparently, was "Yitta". She lived in England all her life. I am told that when she was born, in 1906, her parents had no-one in particular to name her after, so she was named after the wife of the then Chief Rabbi. It's not clear to me what the name was of the lady she was named after. Does anyone have access to this kind of information? (I'm mostly interested in figuring out what this "Yitta" name is, and whether it's a corruption of a better-known name such as Yetta, Yenta, Gitta, etc.) Dave Sherman Toronto -- { ihnp4!utzoo pesnta utcs hcr decvax!utcsri } !lsuc!dave