name choices, family history, murder
My chosen last name is a somewhat bitter and brave joke by my ancestors.
I hope to take my grandparents’ name because they were both artists, and I feel I’m very much theirs. Before he passed, my Grampa gave me the okay to use their name.
My family has only been Ascher for a few centuries. As Kohenim, they unsurprisingly were named Kohen until Bogdan Khelmnitsky’s revolt, when the Cossacks caught an ancestor, wrapped him in a Torah scroll, and burned both.
name choices, family history, murder
Right about then my family decided that highlighting their priestly ancestry was a bad idea. Someone far too clever settled on one of the lost tribes, Asher. But also in German or Yiddish, my family comes from ashes.
I hope I’m worthy of claiming that name.
name choices, family history, murder
@Leucrotta Don’t just come from ashes, leave ashes in your wake.
