Talk:Robert S. Lopez

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I would like to suggest that this page be moved to a page titled Robert S. Lopez. Lopez's books were published in English under than name, and that is the name that most people will be searching for him by. Dianelritter (talk) 09:27, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Rovert Lopez, being a Jew, escaped Italy because of the antisemitic Manifesto of Race - the set of laws enacted in Fascist Italy during July 1938, which stripped the Jews of Italian citizenship and with it any position in the government or professions which many previously held. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.177.3.218 (talk) 13:50, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Contrary to the Mell citation, the children of Robert Lopez were NOT raised in the Jewish faith. I am one of them.Neither I nor my brother was ever circumsized, bar mitzahed, made to learn Hebrew or study the Torah (which, as far as I know, we did not have in the house.)I attended a secular school friend's Bar mitzvah once. We certainly knew we were technically Jewish, and admired many things in our heritage but neither of us ever practiced any form of Judaism -- or any other religion, for that matter. My father used to say he had "far too much respect for God to believe in him" and I have always agreed with him on that. AFAIK, my brother and mother agreed as well.

I have now tracked down and read the supposed source for the wrongful claim that Robert Lopez" "raised his sons in the Jewish faith" Wkipedia attributes it to Mell. but all Mell writes is that "Lopez married a Belgian émigré, Claude Kirschen from an assimilated Jewish family, and their children maintain a Jewish identity." How does "Jewish identity" (whatever that means) get translated by Wikipedia to "Jewish faith"??? Mell herself, in footote 109 to the paragraph Wikipedia cites, quotes from a letter to her from John Munro. It says (in her words) that although Lopez was proud of his Jewish identity, he would not have expressed his Jewish identity in terms of religion. It then quotes Munro as having told her "Roberto's anti-clericalism, as part of his anti-Fascism, explains in my view, his resistance to express any feelings or views about his Jewish identity in terms of religion; in other words, he was anti-religious in general."

How in the world does Wikipedia interpret that as him raising his children "in the Jewish faith"?