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> The B&H owners are Szatmars This is getting very tangential, but I've never seen someone spell it in English Szatmar before as opposed to Satmar. (From what
by skissane 2y ago
> The B&H owners are Szatmars
This is getting very tangential, but I've never seen someone spell it in English Szatmar before as opposed to Satmar. (From what I understand, Szatmar is the Hungarian-derived spelling, whereas Satmar is the Yiddish-derived one.)
- woodruffw 2y agoMy family is from pretty close to there (on the modern Ukrainian side not Romanian, but Hungarian and Eastern Yiddish speaking), so I’ve always seen it spelled “Szatmar.” But yeah, looks like “Satmar” is much more common in English and there’s no ז in the Yiddish spellings either.