Talk:Joseph Schechtman

alleged anonymous pamphlets
I removed the section asserting that Schechtman had published his pamphlets anonymously and that this was discovered and corroborated by Khalidi in 1959 and Medoff in 2001. In the preface of his '52 book, entitled The Arab Refugee Problem he says in his introduction:
 * This publication is an attempt to summarize the essential facts of the Arab refugee problem. Two similar attempts o a smaller scale--Arab Refugees: Facts and Figures, and Re-settlement Prospects for Arab Refugees--were made by this author in 1949.  Their favorable reception made necessary a second revised edition in 1950, which has since then been exhausted...The valuable publication,The Arab Refugee Problem, How it can be solved, Proposals submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations...was, to a considerable extent, based on the material contained in the above mentioned publications.  (Joseph B. Schecthtman NY March 1952) (my bolds)

One can see that he acknowledged his authorship of these pamphlets very early. It appears the two historians cited did not do their homework. Snakeswithfeet (talk) 05:07, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Schechtman's writing an introduction to the republication of these pamphlets does not change the fact they were first published anonymously, nor that others have claimed they were published anonymously. Most significantly, established specialists like Dr. Rafael Medoff, founding director of The David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies knew nothing of the authorship of these crucial works until many years later. Khalidi, Gelber, Morris, Childers, Glazer and Masalha either accuse Schechtman of falsification or point out that he was in favour of transfer (what we now call "ethnic cleansing"). For Schechtman to claim there was no ethnic cleansing is "suprising" indeed and worthless.
 * There is no problem with mentioning that, three years after these allegedly fraudulent pamphlets became the basis of the Israeli case, Schechtman claimed ownership, but only if you own this book or there is other non-involved citation to it's existence. Otherwise, we'd have to treat this claim as something else that is very "suprising" and cannot be verified. Templar98 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:37, 14 January 2011 (UTC). = Banned User

Actually, it looks like you are both wrong. Khalidi doesn't mention the names of the pamphlets in the article. So we don't know that the anonymous pamphlets were the same as those apparently "confirmed" by Medoff. If the publisher was different as Snakeswithfeet points out, perhaps Medoff and Khalidi are talking about different pamphlets? Does anyone have any information about the titles of the pamphlets described by Khalidi? Miamosa (talk) 04:20, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Emigration to the United States
The 1940 US Census shows that Joseph Schectman, his wife Adelaide and her widowed mother, Miriam Cohen, were enumerated on April 2, 1940 as living at 8591 Fleet Street in Queens, New York. That indicates he had actually emigrated prior to that date, and not in the "summer of 1941" as currently noted in the article, although I suppose it's possible that he filed documentation to that effect that summer. I suggest the article might be edited to incorporate the census information.

Here's the reference:

Peter Morgan 03:52, 5 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElectraShore (talk • contribs)


 * This is an example of original research. The census enumeration only means that he was there on the census day, even if he was just visiting. Zerotalk 05:59, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

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Reference: "Erskine Childers, The Other Exodus, in Laqueur, op.cit. pp.182-3"
If there is a reference giving the details of Laqueur's supposedly previously cited work, it is not obvious in the current version.CWO (talk) 12:08, 30 August 2023 (UTC)