Maybe he can weave a story of the Whole Phamily and tell us exactly what we're doing here.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Buxbaum the Storyteller
There are variations: Buxbaum, Buckspan, Buchman, Buchweitz...we are only guessing that the meaning for "buch" is the word book. Perhaps families with this surname were involved with production or selling of books.
If this is the case, then Yitzhak Buxbaum's name is very fitting. He is a teller of sacred Jewish tales. A master storyteller or maggid, Reb Yitzhak is a unique soul and brings the stories from the alter heim (Eastern European towns where so many of us originate from) into the 21st century. His site is the Jewish Spirit Journal, a gateway to mysticism, spirituality and Kabbalah.
Maybe he can weave a story of the Whole Phamily and tell us exactly what we're doing here.
Maybe he can weave a story of the Whole Phamily and tell us exactly what we're doing here.
1 comment:
My guess is that Buch is a Yiddishized version of the Slavic root buk, meaning a birch tree. In any case it is something from nature; cf Weisselbuch (small white buch and here birch makes a lot of sense), Buchholtz (buch wood - again birch makes sense).
Book would be bich in any dialect of Yiddish - and buxbaum - a book tree - makes no sense! A bookseller would be Bicherman.
The only exception to buch coming from nature is Buchalter - bookkeeper - the Ukrainian pronunciation of the Russian buchgalter which in turn is from German. Looking at that it is also possible that Buchman does not fit in with the rest of the buch names and could be a bookseller as well but really I think it is someone who sold birch wood or whatever the correct translation for buch is.
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