Most American Jews are of Eastern European origin. I promise you that you won't find one whose name was or is "Marat."
Turnbull, one of my closest friends is a Jew who was born in Kiev, grew up on Brighton Beach, his first name is Marat, and his last name is very Jewish
Or consider the NBA referee Marat Kogut, born in the Ukraine, grew-up in Brooklyn, and a Jew
Consider the controversial Russian Jew art gallerist Marat Guelman, born in Moldavia.
Consider Marat Grinberg, professor Russian literature at Reed College -- "
Marat Grinberg, Associate Professor of Russian and Humanities and current chair of the department of Russian, has been teaching at Reed since 2006. He holds a BA in Modern Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America . . . . Professor Grinberg specializes in Russian Jewish literature and culture, [and] he is the author of "I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish: from right to left": The Poetics of Boris Slutsky (Academic Studies Press, 2011, 2013) and a co-editor of the forthcoming Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen (Brandeis University Press, 2013). His current book length project is the investigation of Jewishness and intertextuality in cinema. Marat Grinberg regularly offers comparative seminars in Jewish literature as well as courses in Russian poetry and 19th century Russian prose. "
Why so many Russian Jewish Marat's? Perhaps because of the parallel between the Bolsheviks and the Jacobins. In fact, Jean-Paul Marat is widely believed to have been a Jew, certainly in the anti-Semitic literature. See, for instance, Drumont, "Le France Juive," where he claims that the Jacobin's real family name was "Mara" and that once the family settled in Switzerland they became Protestant so as not to reveal their Jewish origins. Taine & Celine also claimed that Marat was a Jew.
Even though some would say that the modern-day book "Red Mafiya" is anti-semitic, its author Robert Friedman is Jewish, and he clearly thinks that most of the Russian mafia is Jewish
Moreover, do you really think that perfectly respectable books like "History of the Jews in Brooklyn," published by Brandeis Univ Press, would be mistaken about so elementary a fact as whether most Russian mobsters in Brooklyn were Jewish, including Marat Balagula