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Subject: Help on Yiddish names
Author: Miss Claire   (Authenticated as Miss Claire)
Date: September 6, 2004 at 4:13:46 PM
What does these feminine Yiddish / Polish names mean?
Tille / Tilla
Rudel (could it be a form of Ruchel, like Runka?)
Matla / Majtla (prn. mah-tla or meye-tla)
Pesel / Pesla
Cyrla
Symelia (feminine form of Shimmel?)
Schewa / Szewa (form of Bathsheba / Bathsheva?)

Thanks a bunch!

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