“Names are funny. They can tell us a lot about a person or not much at all.”

“It wouldn’t’ve worked if I’d changed the name to Bob Levy.”

And did so more than Gentiles with foreign-sounding names.

As told by their surnames.

Telltale names and positions at court.

Blame the Bible.

Jews, and others, changed their names voluntarily.

Sorkin, Dvorkin, Rivkin . . .

History, genetics, and linguistics agree.