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Igel

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5. That's an odd portmanteau sort of name.
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 10:08 AM
Aug 2019

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Jan. A good Czech name available to anybody, Husite or Catholic or Protestant.

Ludvik. A good German name, esp. important given the Germans' status at the time, but probably not given to somebody into Czech(oslovak) nationalism--the same kind of Czech nationalism as espoused by the likes of Gandhi or anybody else who doesn't like their country occupied and divided (and yet doesn't particularly feel like killing over it).

Hyman. A good conservative Jewish name, the kind who would live the entirety of their lives in Jozefuv.

Binyamin. A good fairly moderate Jewish name, the kind who might live in Jozefuv or in Brno or in Kladno or even in Mala strana.

Even his last name is ambiguous between a German and fairly colloquial Czech word, "high" versus "guy".

It's sort of like my made up name along the lines of Thomas Ashok Ivanovich Al-Gharbi y Chang. You can self-name by the context in which you chameleon.

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