A kinnui (כנוי) or kinui (translated as "nickname")[1][2] is the secular name held by Jewish people[3][4] in relation to the language spoken by the country they reside in, differing from their Biblical Hebrew name.
The religious name is in Hebrew (for example, Moses ben Maimon;[4]: 175 Joseph ben Gershon;[5] Shlomeh Arieh ben David HaLevi;[6] Gershom ben Judah; Devorah bat Avraham), and the secular name is in whatever language is in use in the geographic locality (for example, Isaiah Berlin;[7] Solomon Lyon Barnard;[6] Sigmund Freud;[8] Golda Meir;[9] Etta Cone[10]).
- ^ Ben-Yehuda, Ehud and Weinstein, David. Pocket English-Hebrew, Hebrew-English Dictionary. Pocket Books, New York,1977, p. 129.)
- ^ Warren Blatt "presentation first given at the 18th Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Los Angeles, July 1998" http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/givennames/slide6.html
- ^ Potok, Chaim. Wanderings: History of the Jews. Ballantine Books, New York, 1978
- ^ a b Telushkin, Joseph. Jewish literacy. William Morrow and company, New York, 1991.
- ^ Deutsch, Gotthard; Feilchenfeld, Alfred. "Josel (Joselmann, Joselin) of Rosheim (Joseph ben Gershon Loanz)". Jewish Encyclopedia.
- ^ a b "BARNARD Solomon Lyon [Shlomeh Arieh b David HaLevi] b. 1845 Dover, Kent d. 20 Aug 1910: CemeteryScribes Jewish tombstone inscriptions, Find a grave Genealogy, Family History".
- ^ Ignatieff,Michael. Isaiah Berlin: A Life. Henry Holt and company, New York, 1999
- ^ "Freud, Sigmund | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy".
- ^ "Golda Meir". Jewish Virtual Library. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.
- ^ Gabriel, Mary, The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone. Bancroft Press, Baltimore, 2002