I haven't seen the list to which Brian refers, but I have
always admired the (presumably) satirical turn of mind
which transformed academic and translator Aldo Camerino
into 'Angelo Bianco', under which pseudonym he published
translations in the 1940s.
George Talbot
Hull
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:53:26 +0000 (GMT) "B.Moloney"
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> In 1938, Italian newspapers publshed lists of Jewish names to enable good
> fascists to identify those they could no longer employ. I no longer have
> any to hand, but they would be worth looking for. Oddly enough, Fortini
> sounds Jewish as a number of Jewish names end in ino/ini/ani.
>
> Jews becoming Christian did obtain some exemption from persecution for a
> time. This provides some episodes in Giovanni Finzi-Contini's novel, "Il
> piu' lungo viaggio di A. M."
>
> Brian Moloney
>
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Cormac O Cuilleanain wrote:
>
> > Gillian Sharman wrote:
> > >Giorgio Bassani used the pseudonym Giacomo Marchi - I have a vague
> > >idea Marchi was the family name of a female ancestor.
> >
> > ======================
> >
> > Some pseudonyms may have been dictated by political circumstances. Did
> > Franco Lattes's change of surname to Fortini offer him any additional
> > protection during the time of the racial laws? (I gather that in Italy
> > after 1938, Jews could avoid some civil disabilities if they became
> > Christians --- is this correct?)
> >
> > Pseudonyms seem to be a feature of Italian literary life anyway --- from
> > the sobriquets of Renaissance academies up to Trilussa. Do all pseudonyms
> > (in Italy, and elsewhere) tend towards choosing a national identity through
> > a regular-sounding name? If Pincherle becomes Moravia, Schmitz becomes
> > Svevo, is that different from Suckert becoming Malaparte? It's certainly
> > different from Tranquilli becoming Silone.
> >
> > Are there any cases of non-Jewish writers opting for Jewish-sounding names,
> > or Jewish writers opting for other Jewish-sounding names?
> >
> > Is it in _Take A Girl Like You_ that Kingsley Amis has a wonderfully stupid
> > father who suspisicously guesses the "original" Jewish names of all the men
> > his daughter meets? "Ah, yes, Standish. That would be 'Schtundisch', you
> > know."
> >
> > In Ireland, a name like mine used to provoke the question: "What's that in
> > English?" Not so much nowadays ...
> >
> > Cormac O Cuilleanain
> > Trinity College Dublin
> >
> >
> >
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