He is doing much better. And he shall be home by Shabbos. Thank you all for your Tefillos.

Posted Monday, Sep. 5, 1938

Fortnight ago Germany's Government decreed that, before next January 1, Jews in Germany who do not bear "Jewish" first names must add to their names "Israel" or "Sarah," according to their sex. The question then arose: What constitutes a Jewish name? That question became a pressing one not only for 500,000 German Jews but for "Aryan" Germans with such Hebraic names as Paul, Joseph, David. Last week the Government resolved doubts by publishing an official list of Jewish names—including no Pauls or Josephs. Some of them:

Males: Abel, Abimelech, Abner, Absalom, Ahab, Aaron, Ascher, Baruch, Bud, Dan, Denny, Eli, Elias, Elihu, Enoch, Esau, Esra, Ezechiel, Gad, Gideon, Habakuk, Hillel, Isaac, Isachar, Isidor, Ismael, Israel, Itzig, Jehu, Jehuda, Jeremia, Jethro, Joab, Jochanan, Joel, Jona, Jonathan, Juda, Kaleb, Laban, Lazarus, Levi, Lot, Lupu, Manasse, Moab, Mordechaj, Moses, Naftali, Nathan, Nehemia, Noa, Obadja, Pinkus, Ruben, Sally, Salomon, Samuel, Saul, Schmul, Scholem, Sebulon, Sirach, Simson, Teit, Uria, Uriel, Zedekia.

Females: Abigail, Bela, Chinke, Driesel, Fradchen, Frommet, Gole, Hadassah, Hannacha, Hitzel, Jezebel, Judith, Libe, Mathel, Pesschen, Pessel, Pirle, Rachel, Rebekka, Rivka, Sara, Schlämche, Tana, Zipora.

At least one section of world Jewry took the Government's list calmly. In Palestine, young, race-conscious refugee Jews have been prompt to rid themselves of such German names as Hans, Fritz, Gretchen. Popular today among Palestinian youths are, for males, Uri, Shmuel, Micha; for females, Brocha, Ayala, Ruth. So, in Manhattan last week, reported Mrs. David B. Greenberg, national chairman of "Youth Aliyah," an immigration service sponsored in the U. S. by Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization. Mrs. Greenberg was pleased to see Hadassah— Biblical name of Esther, Jewish queen and nemesis of the Persian plotter Haman—on the Nazi list. Said she: "Any Jewish girl should be proud to bear it."

An interesting Times article from 1938:
Jeremy, glad to hear your uncle's doing well.

That is my grandmother's hebrew name. I am curious about this name. In fact my cousin named her daughter this name along with Shoshana. It is something with flowers but I am not sure.

Maybe it's related to the Hebrew name פרחיה.

From where in the Torah and what is signifiance of her name (if there is one or what is the meaning of that name)?

From where in the Torah and what is signifiance of her name (if there is one or what is the meaning of that name)?

It's a modern name, that seems to mean "flower of God" or "blossom of God" or somesuch. [/pure conjecture]

It sounds Yiddish or German to me, and it therefore would not be found anywhere in the Torah.

Make sense - she loved flowers and not only that she was known as Flora.

(Just note that I was talking about פרחיה, not פראדכען.)