wmfinck wrote:"What sort of jew would use the name Putz?"
I'm the last person who would want to retrieve the Windy City Rabbi from the Lake of Fire if that's where he deserves to go. He certainly behaves like someone who is unsure of his ancestry.
That said, there are a number of people with the last name of Putz, but it appears to be a German, rather than jewish name. Here are some "well-known" or noted people with the last name Putz, but they don't seem jewish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putz_%28surname%29Here's a major league baseball player, named J.J. Putz, who doesn't seem to be a jew:
http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=432The German name "Putz" probably originally had an umlaut over the "U", pronouncing it as something like "Peetz" or "Pyeetz" rather than "Putts". And yes, the Polish equivalent
could be "Puc", but it also appears to be an old Polish Christian name, and it may not be directly related to the German "Putz".
In fact, it seems that the Auschwitz "survivor" named "Puc" featured in the
Forward article that Bill cited is actually an ethnic Catholic Pole. This would be consistent with what I found on that name in Polish genealogies.
I hate to agree with Joe November about anything, but he may be right that a jew would unlikely take the name of Putz because of its pejorative connotation in Yiddish. Either way, I don't understand what November's birth name was--was it Putz or November? Has he ever published his family ancestry online?
"No Rothschild is English. No Baruch, Morgenthau, Cohen, Lehman, Warburg, Kuhn, Kahn, Schiff, Sieff or Solomon was ever born Anglo-Saxon. And it is for this filth that you fight. It is for this filth that you murdered your Empire. It is this filth that elects, selects, your politicians." -- Ezra Pound