Famous changed Jewish names

[jpgray]

Bob Zimmerman
Jon Liebowitz
Lenny Schneider

[JohnKleeb]

1. Henry Kleebowitz

;)
kidding. As far as I know, there's been nothing like that in my family.

[salinen]

2. Bob Dylan

?
Lenny Bruce?

[jpgray]

3. Yep on one and three (nt)

[JohnKleeb]

4. Jon Lovitz

I think

[jpgray]

5. Nope, but you're in the right artistic field (nt)

[JohnKleeb]

7. shit I probably wont get it because I am watching the daily show rerun

soon.

[jpgray]

8. Hmm, Daily Show? Are you being sarcastic with me?

:D

[JohnKleeb]

10. Jon Stewart!

really? now thats irony, no I am not being sarcastic.

[jpgray]

12. Yep! He was born Jon Liebowitz. (nt)

[JohnKleeb]

24. thats ironic

[latebloomer]

31. My mom was friends with his mom,

Marian Leibowitz. Very nice, smart lady, good sense of humor. She works as an educational consultant, gives seminars all over the country.

[calico1]

9. Jon Stewart n/t

[JohnKleeb]

11. ya beat me

:D good job. That was funny.

[Obamarama]

6. Michael Savage

= Michael Weiner.

Oh, wait....that's an INFAMOUS changed Jewish name.

On edit: DUH...you're asking us to GUESS, not provide names. Oy.

[aquart]

13. And the point of this little exercise would be................?

[jpgray]

15. My continued plot to debase Jewishness through inane name-guessing games

Now we must argue about the nature of this silly thread's true malevolent purpose until one of us falls alseep.

:)

[Fenris]

16. Anti-Semite!

[Fenris]

14. Alan Stewart Konigsberg

[jpgray]

17. You're going to start a(nother?) flame war

x(

[Fenris]

18. I was going to suggest Peter Parker's was Irving Spiderman.

:D

[KamaAina]

19. Woody Allen

jumped the shark and is a sleazebag. Pity. It was so good, back in the day...

[miss_kitty]

20. bob dylan

ok. bernie schwartz.

[jpgray]

21. Tony Curtis. I'm pretty good with the 40s-60s actor names (nt)

[miss_kitty]

22. ok how about this POLISH jewish name

Schmuel Gelbfisz

[jpgray]

23. Don't know. If it's an actor from that period, now I look like a dumbass

:D

[miss_kitty]

26. it's not

it's Samuel Goldwyn, maker of many actors from that period...:D

[jpgray]

27. Goldwyn Pictures!

I shoulda knowed that.

:dunce:

[JohnKleeb]

25. put it in my thread

[JVS]

28. One of my friend's great grandfathers thought Kravetsky sounded too Jewish

So he changed his name to Levine

[asthmaticeog]

30. That's hilarious.

And it sounds a little like the Irving conundrum. So many American Jews started naming their kids Irving (an upper-crusty British name) so they wouldn't be so Jewish-seeming that the name Irving eventually came to sound Jewish.

[agingdem]

29. Tony Curtis

Bernard Schwartz

[mrbill]

32. jack rubenstein.............

jack ruby

[peekaloo]

33. Albert Einstein

now known as Albert Brooks.

:P

[Optimus Primestein]

34. Optimus Primesteingoldblattmanberg n/t