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Friday, March 20th, 2009 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manAuntie has an article this morning entitled "Mrs? Or is that Ms, Miss?". Personally, I can sympathise with not wanting to have your marital status necessarily conveyed in your title; for those who cannot, it might be instructive to consider how you might feel if the shoe was on the other foot.
When I get called up in shul for an aliyah, in my own minyan, Assif, I am called up by my own name. But in my parents' shul in Newcastle, I'll be given a title which depends on my marital status: When I get called up, it's as ha-bochur <my-name>, whereas when my father gets called up, it's as reb <his-name>.
Like with referring to married women with their husband's first initial or even first name, it's something I didn't even bat an eyelid at when I grew up, but strikes me as strange now.
When I get called up in shul for an aliyah, in my own minyan, Assif, I am called up by my own name. But in my parents' shul in Newcastle, I'll be given a title which depends on my marital status: When I get called up, it's as ha-bochur <my-name>, whereas when my father gets called up, it's as reb <his-name>.
Like with referring to married women with their husband's first initial or even first name, it's something I didn't even bat an eyelid at when I grew up, but strikes me as strange now.
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Date: 2009-03-20 04:41 pm (UTC)