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[quote=Anonymous]OP, it is a kind of modernization/flexibility thing, although it's not out of disdain for older/Yiddish names, so much as it's considered pretty much the same name if you use the same first initial. Maybe that has roots in having both a Hebrew and other (Yiddish, English, German, Russian) name, sometimes with the same first letter. IDK. Of course you only name after a dead relative. Well, I think you're allowed, religiously speaking, to use a live person's name, but it's a specifically Ashkenazi thing to name (initial) after only a recently deceased relative, and it's superstitious according to my family. Like if you give the child the dead person's name, the evil eye (etc. kinahora) might mistakenly kill them, since they're supposed to be dead. Or not that, exactly, but something along those lines, like bad luck/form.[/quote]
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