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SUMMARY:Adult Ed: A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: Jewish Name Changing in th
 e 20th Century
DESCRIPTION:Our images of name changing are frequently clichés: movie sta
 rs who adopted new names or Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants
 ’ names. Kirsten Fermaglich upends these clichés by examining previousl
 y unexplored name change petitions. In twentieth-century New York City\, t
 housands of ordinary Jews legally changed their names to respond to instit
 utionalized antisemitism. While name changing allowed Jewish families to a
 chieve middle-class status\, the practice also became a source of family p
 ain and community stigma.\n\nKirsten Fermaglich is Professor of History an
 d Jewish Studies at Michigan State University. Her most recent book\, A Ro
 senberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America (N
 YU\, 2018)\, was awarded the Saul Viener prize for the best book in Americ
 an Jewish history in 2019. She is also the author of American Dreams and N
 azi Nightmares (Brandeis University Press\, 2006) and the co-editor of the
  Norton Critical Edition of Betty Friedan\, The Feminine Mystique (2013)\,
  with Lisa Fine. She was a National Archives Distinguished Fellow in 2022-
 2023. From 2016 through 2021\, she was co-editor of the journal\, American
  Jewish History\, along with Daniel Soyer and Adam Mendelsohn.\n\nREGISTER
  HERE
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