User talk:Afernand74/Archives/2018/January

Belated best wishes for a happy 2018
= BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:34, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Emil Fröschels
Thank you for your kind and careful attention to Emil Fröschels. A question for you, I am wondering if "Jewish scientists" is an appropriate tag. Do you know if the subject considered himself Jewish, or was he, like so many others of the period, just sort of swept up in an anti-Jewish hysteria? (I'm thinking, for example, of Professor Schlick, whose murder was falsely justified at the time by his alleged Jewish identity which, I understand, didn't have a basis in fact.) Robert K S (talk) 18:44, 28 January 2018 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. Honestly, I cannot answer your question . The source I cited is qualifying Froschel as a jew. I could not find an English source described how Froschel considered himself. Categorising people is a hit-or-miss thing. A more careful wording could be "of Jewish descent" if there is some doubt about it. I added an extra German ref to support that. Feel free to remove it if you think it is unappropriate. --Afernand74 (talk) 20:41, 28 January 2018 (UTC)