>>BTW, there are two guys named Dmitry where I am working, only they spell it Dmitriy. Is this a case of some people translating into English one way and some another way?
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>I'm not Dmitry, but thanks to my involvement with Hebrew Free Loan, I see a lot of names of Russian immigrants. A lot of them use "iy" in the transliterations of their names where you or I would have put only "y" or only "i."
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>Tamar

I read a book (can't recall it right now, but it's packed in a box) on jewish immigration to the U.S. and found the timeline and cultural/religious opinions and differences between European Jews and Eastern Europran and Russian Jews very interesting. There were many differences and they found each other as separate and different as they would in a comparison to Irish catholic. I don't know how accurate it was, but it certainly was interesting.