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> they tried to guess by the last name You'll find this interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15424769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=154247
by forapurpose 9y ago
> they tried to guess by the last name
You'll find this interesting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15424769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15424769
- lohankin 9y agoThose cases were probably quite common. From wikipedia article about Glenn Gould, the great Canadian pianist: "The family's surname was changed to Gould informally around 1939 in order to avoid being mistaken for Jewish, given the prevailing anti-Semitism of prewar Toronto and the Gold surname's Jewish association"