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Post Subject: Beethoven didn't know he was a Jew, well...Posted by Axel on: 8/15/2009

most everyone else doesn't seem to know about having 'some' Jewish genes I would say, so why not Beethoven?

(Some noted the Goeppels and even Hitler had Jewish genes, and so why not?)

Going back into the periode when name changes required in the early mid 1800 in the parts of Germany I partially descend from (Baden) you'd be surprised to note that a LOT of VERY German sounding names where assumed by Jewish families. They were required by law to change there most impossible to spell names, to something more manageable by the authorities, so Mueller, Schneider, Jaeger, Metzger, and so on, all of the sudden also had a good chance of being Jewish.

The same, I guess, happened around this period also in the Low Countries - , Netherlands, Belgium of today.
Now, Beethoven is NOT at all a typical German name but rather comes from those areas.
I have the "Bass" name in my family which sounds pretty much English --- and not to find out, that it was also a Jewish name that came to Great Britain by Jewish families from Latvia and some of the other Baltic States.

Ludwig B. was know, other then his genius, for having a bad temper, even that would fit just fine, now wouldn't it :-)

Axel

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