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- Fear of anti-Semitism drove his father to change the family name to Redstone in 1940, just after Nazi Germany began its march through Europe.
In 1940, at Sumner's behest, his father changed the family surname from "Rothstein" to "Redstone"; although Sumner credited his father for the name change, friends of the family attribute it more to Sumner. "Red stone" is the translation of the Yiddish name Rothstein.
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Aug 13, 2020 · Sumner's early years were busy ones — he convinced his father to change the family name to Redstone, the literal English translation of their original moniker, served in World War II deciphering Japanese coded transmissions with the SIS, and graduated from Harvard in 1947 with a law degree.
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Aug 12, 2020 · Redstone’s name at the time of his birth in 1923 was Sumner Rothstein, but in 1940 he convinced his father to change the family name to Redstone, a literal translation of Rothstein.
Aug 12, 2020 · He wrote in his 2001 autobiography A Passion to Win that his own father had changed the family name from Rothstein to Redstone.
The family had been observant Jews, and Sumner had studied the Talmud, so he was surprised by the change. “It’s a much better name,” he quoted his father as saying.
Aug 12, 2020 · Born Sumner Murray Rothstein in Boston on May 27 1923, he was 17 when his father changed the family’s surname. Media was in his blood: his father started Northeast Theater Corporation,...
Aug 12, 2020 · Fear of anti-Semitism drove his father to change the family name to Redstone in 1940, just after Nazi Germany began its march through Europe.
