Tag #120441 - Interview #87387 (Rifca Segal)

Officially, my name is Rifca, they named me after a great-grandmother, the mother of my grandmother from my mother’s side. My brother was born in 1930, people called him Ioji, but, officially, his name was Iosif. There was this custom, which I see that people in Israel don’t observe anymore nowadays, of naming people after the dead. People even paid money in order to have someone named after a dead person. And so both my aunt, and my uncle from Falticeni, and my father named their son after their father.