Talk:Meyer Berger

Czech descent?
We say that his father immigrated from Czechoslovakia before Berger's 1898 birth, but that state did not exist. Nor was it one region of Austria-Hungary; indeed it was split between the Austrian and Hungarian kingdoms. I added one parenthetical link to our coverage of TCH in A-H.

Berger is a German surname, or German Jewish. excludes the Slovakia territory but it's inclusive otherwise, not limited to ethnic Czechs. But we should be more specific if we can (diffuse that category). Perhaps that NYT obit is our source, and provides more information to put him in the Bohemia or Moravia subcat or perhaps one of their German subsubcats, eg.

--P64 (talk) 21:46, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

I have changed this to say Berger was the son of a Czech immigrant, since Czechoslovakia did not exist at that time. -- Visuanthi (talk) 15:31, 14 October 2021 (UTC)