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Felicia Alexander

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Greetings to all- I wonder whether any of you can give me a possible Yiddish
or Hebrew name that would correspond to Philip? My father, Philip, was named
for his deceased grandfather from Russia whose name was pronounced
phonetically like "Payses"--Is this a true first name? Any idea fof the
spelling? These folks came from the Kiev region.

TIA

Felicia Alexander
Langhorne, PA


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Phil Glowatz

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Feb 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/10/98
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Felicia Alexander <Fm...@aol.com> wrote:


>>Greetings to all- I wonder whether any of you can give me a possible
>>Yiddish or Hebrew name that would correspond to Philip? My father,
>>Philip, was named for his deceased grandfather from Russia whose name
>>was pronounced phonetically like "Payses"--Is this a true first name?

>>Any idea of the spelling? These folks came from the Kiev region.


My Hebrew name is Faivel.

Philip Glowatz


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Leah Berkowitz

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Feb 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/11/98
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On Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:51:30 EST, Felicia Alexander <Fm...@aol.com> wrote:

:Greetings to all- I wonder whether any of you can give me a possible
:Yiddish or Hebrew name that would correspond to Philip? My father, Philip,
:was named for his deceased grandfather from Russia whose name was pronounced

:phonetically like "Payses"--Is this a true first name? Any idea fof the


:spelling? These folks came from the Kiev region.
:

My father, Philip, has the Hebrew name of Pinchas, but it seems to me as
though your father's Hebrew name might be Pesach (pronounced "Paysakh").

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SiScheraga

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Feb 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/11/98
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>Yiddish or Hebrew name that would correspond to Philip?

My uncle Philip's Hebrew name is Feivel.
Suzanne Scheraga
Searching: BLOOM/BLUM, RUTH?, OTTENSTEIN, GOLDSTEIN (Bialystok)THALER,
BURG(Bohorochane) KOHN, WODAK (Vienna) SCHERAGO, JANKOWITZ, GARFINKEL(Iasi)
GOLDBERG/TOMASHEVSKY(Vilna) KLEIN (Riga)


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David Sotkowitz

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In my family, several Philip's have/had the Hebrew name Pesach (as in
Passover). It sounds very close to "Payses".

- David Sotkowitz

Felicia Alexander wrote:
>
> Greetings to all- I wonder whether any of you can give me a possible Yiddish


> or Hebrew name that would correspond to Philip? My father, Philip, was named
> for his deceased grandfather from Russia whose name was pronounced
> phonetically like "Payses"--Is this a true first name? Any idea fof the
> spelling? These folks came from the Kiev region.

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Irving jgen

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>On Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:51:30 EST, Felicia Alexander <Fm...@aol.com>

>:Greetings to all- I wonder whether any of you can give me a possible


>:Yiddish or Hebrew name that would correspond to Philip? My father,
>Philip,
>:was named for his deceased grandfather from Russia whose name was
>pronounced
>:phonetically like "Payses"--Is this a true first name? Any idea fof

I cant help with a sound alike for "Payses"
but my grandfather Phillip was Fayba in Poland and also was referred to
as Shraga
at times. Apparently Shraga-Feivel is a common pairing and Feivel is
not a big stretch to Fajba.

Irving Levine


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Elyse Eisenberg

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Feb 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/11/98
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Felicia Alexander wrote:

> Greetings to all- I wonder whether any of you can give me a possible Yiddish
> or Hebrew name that would correspond to Philip? My father, Philip, was named
> for his deceased grandfather from Russia whose name was pronounced

> phonetically like "Payses"--Is this a true first name? Any idea fof the
> spelling? These folks came from the Kiev region.
>


In my family, the original ancestor from Lithuania was Efraim Fischel. Everyone
named for him in later (alternate) generations is named Phillip.

A current generation American Phillip, after growing up in Israel, now goes by
Efraim.

Elyse Eisenberg
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Lazar Kleit

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Feb 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/11/98
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My dad had a colleague - also a teacher of mine - Pesach Simon, who went
by the English name, Paul. Also, I have an Uncle Leon, who started life
as Phillip, which then became F'lipeh, then Lipeh, then Leon. Don't know
if that's Kosher Yiddish, but it's a fun story.

Faivel and Fishel are also Yiddish names I've seen become Phillip.

Best wishes.

--
Lazar H. Kleit
Philadelphia PA 19107
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On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Felicia Alexander wrote:

> Greetings to all- I wonder whether any of you can give me a possible Yiddish
> or Hebrew name that would correspond to Philip? My father, Philip, was named
> for his deceased grandfather from Russia whose name was pronounced
> phonetically like "Payses"--Is this a true first name? Any idea fof the
> spelling? These folks came from the Kiev region.
>
>
>

> TIA
>
> Felicia Alexander
> Langhorne, PA
>
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Fmode

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Feb 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/14/98
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Many thanks to all of you who replied to this question I posed. I have
received so many! What a wonderful group you all are...THANKS!
Felicia


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