Re: Hi from Ukraine

On Friday 23 November 2001 10:58, Isak wrote:

> Well, my Jewish name is Yitzchaq, the Russian equivalent for it is
> Isaak, the Ukrainian one is Isak. But (!) NB: For a number of
> reasons in the official documents they call me with a RUSSIAN name
> Igor'
I'll stick with the Ukrainian name for the moment (or do you prefer
Yitzchaq, or are you like Boudewijn's old professor who was called
George or J?rg or Sjors or Yuri depending on what language he
happened to be using?)

> Aren't you from Lithuania?
Who, me? No, a hundred per cent Dutch, only I changed my name (ugly
and useless, we had a whole thread about it and I don't want that
again) to "Irina" when I became Orthodox. (That's nominally-Russian
Orthodox, not Orthodox Jewish, of course).

   Irina

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