Was Anyone Called By Their Given Name? The Bronx 1943 Sholem Aleichem, in his humorous stories of the shtetl made us aware that a given name came with a title e.g. Tevyeh the Milkman, The Butcher Lazer Wolff, The Tailor Muttle Chemzoil , Yisroel the Shammas, or Berel the Redhead. This was probably engraved into… Continue reading Was Anyone Called By Their Given Name (1939)?