2026-04-10 23:21 UTC
@jschwart@mas.to There are book scanners. I need to get one to record my great grandfather’s baseball ephemera scrapbook from circa 1900.
Schwartz is a very common Ashkenazi Jewish name, probably originally given to people with dark hair or something like that. But of course something unfortunate happened in Europe so it is not common there anymore. It is still common in the U.S., in the states of New York and New Jersey particularly.
Of the Barry Schwartzes on the Net, I am the Google Font one.
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@chemoelectric@masto.ai 2026-04-10 23:24
@jschwart@mas.to My uncle married the daughter of refugees from H*****, but most American Jews are from before that. The most recent immigrants in my family were from the time of the FIRST Russian Revolution. So before WW1. (My least recent immigrants were British from the early 1600s and did things like enslave the indigenous folk and drive that nice man Roger Williams out of Massachusetts.)