 Or there's the story about my great-grandfather's bookkeeping skills. I'm actually named for my great-grandfather, Isidore Friedlander. My parents chose Ira instead of Isidore because Isidore Glass is a parsable English sentence. Isidore Glass? My mom once told me that they picked Ira over the alternatives because it sounded less Jewish to them. It just goes to show how completely, utterly Jewish their entire world was back then.