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It's sometimes used by Jewish ladies as the everyday equivalent of the Hebrew Dvora (Deborah).
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Couldn't it also be short for Pandora?
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Back in the nineteen-fifties, my mother knew a Jewish woman whose given name was Deborah, but she was always known as Dora.
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This comes from the Greek word for "gift".
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Dora means "generation" in Hebrew.
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