My first temptation was to say "JK Rowling writing a Jewish character ass name", too, but apparently Mizrahi has been a fairly common (or at least not unheard of) surname for centuries. Wikipedia seems to indicate that Mizrahi is most often a Sephardic surname — originally pointing to someone who arrived to Iberia from the east — however it seems like there are also a number of actual Mizrahim with the surname Mizrahi, interestingly, including a number of American Jews of Middle Eastern descent. The most famous person named Mizrahi appears to be Elijah Mizrachi (1455-1525), author of The Mizrachi, a very creatively titled supercommentary on Rashi's commentary on the Torah. There was apparently also an Egyptian Olympic fencer in the 1920s named Joseph "Jack" Mizrahi, who I am very curious about now.
So in hindsight, you know, I don't know if Jenny Mizrahi actually chose that name in the same way as Bibi's dad was born Mileikowsky, or if ol' Jenny was like born in Seppoland and was given a typical Anglo forename with the inherited surname Mizrahi. But you know, in any case, with that added context, "Jenny Mizrahi" seems only as silly a name as like, I dunno, Jason Costello or something.
My first temptation was to say "JK Rowling writing a Jewish character ass name", too, but apparently Mizrahi has been a fairly common (or at least not unheard of) surname for centuries. Wikipedia seems to indicate that Mizrahi is most often a Sephardic surname — originally pointing to someone who arrived to Iberia from the east — however it seems like there are also a number of actual Mizrahim with the surname Mizrahi, interestingly, including a number of American Jews of Middle Eastern descent. The most famous person named Mizrahi appears to be Elijah Mizrachi (1455-1525), author of The Mizrachi, a very creatively titled supercommentary on Rashi's commentary on the Torah. There was apparently also an Egyptian Olympic fencer in the 1920s named Joseph "Jack" Mizrahi, who I am very curious about now.
So in hindsight, you know, I don't know if Jenny Mizrahi actually chose that name in the same way as Bibi's dad was born Mileikowsky, or if ol' Jenny was like born in Seppoland and was given a typical Anglo forename with the inherited surname Mizrahi. But you know, in any case, with that added context, "Jenny Mizrahi" seems only as silly a name as like, I dunno, Jason Costello or something.
I'll grant you it's not as good as my favorite israeli name, Yam Rothschild
Still not as bad as Smuley, that just sounds like it could an antisemitic slur
saw an interview with a west bank settler named Shlomo Vile
I feel like as a Jew I'm allowed to type that out but I don't know if you are
That's a Star Wars character name, I'm sure >.>
Yam, short for Jams in a Can by Yamaha