Talk:Isaac Rülf

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Hello, I've just created this page for Isaac Rülf, based on a couple years of research. It's my first contribution longer than a sentence or two. I have more information that's cited and verifiable, but I tried to only include what seemed appropriate for an encyclopedia entry. Is that a good strategy? Also, I'd like to mention a couple concerns I have for the page.

The first is the online resource by Joseph Rosin. I spoke to a totally unconnected person at a Berlin organization called The History of Jews in East Prussia, and she tells me that the author Rosin is a life-long resident of Klaipeda, but she couldn't say exactly how accurate his memoirs are. So far, none of his assertions have been in contradiction with other, more-verifiable resources that I've found, and there's been a fair amount of overlap on this topic. I mention it because one of the grander statements about Rülf, the saving of specifically 30,000 Jews in a certain number of towns, has so far appeared only in Rosin (the raising of the funds is verified elsewhere).

The second is my citing of a piece by Josef Fraenkel called Isaac Ruelf: A Pioneering Zionist. I have only a photocopy of this, which is a few pages long and appeared in a book, probably sometime before the 1980's. The pages only have one word at the top, Zion. I have yet to discover what book this is.

Third, I am citing a newspaper article called Real Memory By City Woman For Adenauer of which I also have just a photocopied clipping. I'm told that it is from a Schenectady, NY-area newspaper, where the subject (Isaac Rülf's granddaughter) lived. The article states that Konrad Adenauer died "yesterday" so it can be dated to April 20, 1967. The online archives of the most major area papers (Schenectady Gazette and Albany Times-Union) don't go back that far, so I will have to do some more work to lock this down.

In the interest of brevity, I didn't mention that Rulf was not the first to suggest Palestine for the future Jewish homeland - another rabbi published a work 21 years earlier with that idea. But I don't want to be disingenuous about that. Thoughts?

Thanks. Reading glasses (talk) 20:08, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

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