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Israel Story

19: Of Numbers and Names

Israel Story

Israel Story

Judaism, Palestine, Jewish, Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Israel

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This Thursday, May 5th, Israelis observe Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. At 10 a.m., according to custom, an air raid will sound and the country will fall quiet for two long minutes.

Silence won’t do for a podcast, so instead we bring you two stories. Act I, “B-1367,” is about an elderly father and his 53-year old son, and the inked number that binds them. In Act II, “Herr Eichmann,” we meet up with a group of men for whom Eichmann is not a symbol of Nazi evil, but a gaunt, balding prisoner for whom they were responsible, as guards and interrogators.

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H-A-S-A-A-H.

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dot-O-O-S-A-S-A-S-A-S-A-S-A-O-O-O slash slash on-call Israel. Many people name their kids after their parents or grandparents.

1:30.8

In our family too we have this generational recycling of names going on.

1:35.0

Israel, Shlomo and Moshe for the boys,

1:38.0

Mania Tsipora and Zina for the girls.

1:41.0

Now in our case, like in most Jewish Ashkenazi families the

1:45.7

naming always happens after the original name holder is already dead. But in high

1:50.7

school I had this friend I Tama Levy, who had, if I remember correctly, eight or nine first cousins, all named David Levy, after their beloved and very much alive Grandpa, David Levi.

2:05.6

And I remember I used to think about that Grandpa, sitting around with all his namesake

2:15.0

grandkids, and I'd wonder what that naming tribute meant to him, what it made him feel.

2:21.0

I mean, obviously it comes from a place of respect and honor but it's such a large

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