Tuesday 13 August 2013

Letter on an Editor

Re “To emigrate or not,” by Dan Rottenberg—
    
Fascinating ought-to-biography. Would make a top notch musical. Except there’s no explanation of their patronym, Rottenberg. Maybe they were sneering silently at the defective mountain of their nearby Russian Orthodox neigh-boors.
 
Patrick D. Hazard
Weimar, Germany
August 9, 2013

     
Editor’s comment: The Marianskys of Suwalki Gubernia in Russia were my maternal grandfather’s family. The Rottenbergs were Hungarians, with roots going back to the 13th Century German rabbi Meir of Rothenburg.

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