On Apr 27, 1:27=A0pm, "jeremy.p.spin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<jeremy.p.spin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I have a strange possible explanation I would like to run by, and see
> what anyone thinks of it.
>
> Before giving the theory, let us think of Lipshutz's last name. There
> are two spellings, which are used interchangeably; Lipschutz and
> Lipschuetz. Which is correct? Although one of these is probably the
> name on official US records, they are obviously both correct, since he
> no doubt considered the true spelling of the name Lipsch u umlaut tz.
> When transcribing the u umlaut, some people write u, and others write
> ue.
>
> Could it be possible that we have the same situation with his first
> name? How could one name be given in so many different forms, however?
>
> Although I have never used it, I also have a second given name. Each
> child in my family has a Hebrew name, as well as an American name. The
> Hebrew name is simply the Hebrew name of the person I am named after.
> In my case, this would be my great-uncle Isaac, or Yitzchak. My
> "standard" name is only tenuously related; a name was chosen such that
> it shares the same first letter as a Hebrew name as Yitzchak.
>
> By my generation, this Hebrew name is purely vestigial; I don't ever
> use it, and I doubt that my children even know I have such a name.
> Could it be that in Lipschutz's time, however, he considered his true
> name his Hebrew name, and basically answered with any name which
> started with an S when asked? Of course, in old sources the name is
> usually given simply as S. Lipschutz; it is only rarely that a first
> name is assigned.
>
> Perhaps someone who knows about Jewish naming custome of the time
> could day whether this makes any sense.
>
> Would it make sense to collect all the old sources in which a name is
> given for Lipschutz, to see whether any name is really more common
> than any other? I think I have references to all the names listed,
> though IIRC Salomon rather than Solomon is given in my source.
>
> Jerry Spinrad
>
> On Apr 26, 7:19=A0pm, ttk5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Apr 26, 3:59=A0pm, RookHouse <mor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > Samuel Lipschutz was born in 1863 in Hungary but emigrated to the
USA
> > > in 1880 at the age of seventeen. =A0His chess career started to
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> > > in 1883, as he was chosen to participate in high level chess club
> > > matches, representing New York against Philadelphia ...........
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> > > Click here to read the whole
article:http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=
=3D189
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> > =A0 There's still uncertainty about Lipsch=FCtz's actual first name,
is
> > there not? Gaige gives references that call him variously Samuel,
> > Simon, and Solomon. Has the correct name ever been determined?- Hide
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Hey .... it's Jerry Spinrad ..... I thought you fell off the face of
the Earth.
Jerry, you offered to share some of your research with me on American
chess history a few months ago, for which I thought that I had
appropriately expressed my gratitude. You then decided for some
reason to blow me off and refused to answer any of my e-mails.
Yet, now you participate in my thread as if this never happened. I
would very much like to know why you would treat a fellow chess
historian in this unacceptable manner. If you had second thoughts on
sharing any of your research, then that's all you had to say. To
ignore and lie to someone who has never wronged you in any way is
pretty weird and inappropriate.
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