Poor Yorick His non Jewishness is given way too much weight too early in the article Propose to move the whole opening paragraph of Youth and studies minus the first sentence between Cantor s paternal grandparents and rabbinical law to a separate section at the end of the article just before Notes so that the beginning of the main text of the article past lead reads Cantor was born in 1845 in St Petersburg Russia and brought up in St Petersburg He Cantor was the eldest of six children That section at the end would also be a good place to put in the fascinating description of the bibliographical sources on Cantor which may be the best thing that resulted from the discussion in a normal font presently it is set in such a tiny font that it actually hurts one s eyes to read