Talk:The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland

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Re: "The author, Jaff Schatz, is the Polish-Swedish professor of sociology". There's no evidence that he has held an academic position. See the sources I added to the article. He does not claim this for himself anywhere that I can find. SarahSV (talk) 02:30, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * He has been described as a professor of sociology in the review by Tony Judt . Unless we can find a source that is clearly contradictory and states he was never a professor, the claim seems verified by a reliable source. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:39, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I've already posted several sources that were his self-description, including his LinkedIn. See below. Do you not think he would mention if he had been a professor of sociology?
 * Schatz's LinkedIn profile says he has been the CEO of Schatz Consulting since 1990 and was a "senior consultant" from 1991 until 2015. The book was his PhD thesis. See "Older doctoral theses", Lund University, Dept of Sociology: Schatz, Jaff. The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Generation of Jewish Communists of Poland (1990). He was described in 2008 as "a sociologist, founder and former director of the Institute for Jewish Culture in Lund, Sweden. He is presently active as a consultant in international business development, culture and society". The Institute for Jewish Culture is or was a part-time group that emerged from JUSIL, the Jewish University Student Club, in Lund; the institute distributes Jewish material to schools, etc (see Morton H. Narrowe in S. Llan Troen, Jewish Centers and Peripheries, 1999, p. 196).Also here: "Jaff Schatz emigrated from Poland after March 1968. He is a sociologist and historian (e.g. the author of The Generation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Communists of Poland, UCP 1991), founder and head of the Institute for Jewish Culture (Lund, Sweden, 1974–2003) and consultant/advisor for organizations and enterprises. Dr Schatz defended his PhD dissertation at the Lund University, Sweden in 1990."


 * SarahSV (talk) 02:46, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Maybe he was a professor for just a few years and does not consider it significant, maybe he has bad memories from that period, maybe, maybe, who knows? Absence of information is not the same as contradiction. Speculation like this is pure WP:OR. Verifiability, not truth, remember? PS. I also found : "Professor Jaff Schatz or our colleague Jacek from Lund, who has already published several papers or sections of his book in Plotkies, read a particularly interesting paper entitled: ‘The world of Polish-Jewish communist mentality and identity – a sketch for a portrait’. The total number of Jewish communists among the Jewish population before and after the war among the million members of the Polish United Workers’ Party were, at most, approximately 10 thousand. The author also reminded us of the reasons why Jews became communists and, alongside discrimination against Jews in Poland, he indicated secularisation and assimilation trends and strong politicisation among the young generation before the war as well as the generation gap."--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:54, 17 May 2020 (UTC)