Talk:Marc Chagall

message: Marc was born in Vitebsk (Віцебск) city. Now the city is in Republic Belarus. At Chagal time they (both the city and Belarus) belonged to Russian Imperia. 
I think, it's correct to put: 
*Born Moishe Zakharovich Shagalov (Moishe Segal) in Vitebsk, Belarus (at that time: in the Russian Empire), ... 
--ZmiLa 13:13, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't agree with the Segal part.  His name was Shagalov, and it later became Chagall.  It was never Segal.  JackofOz 03:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I believe the name Segal is accurate and should be restored.  According to this review of a recent biography from JBooks and these notes from an exhibition of his etchings, Chagall was born Segal.  This Yiddish name was then Russianized into Shagalov (the composition of his Russian given names, Moshe + the patronymic Zakharovich, seems to be a translation of his Hebrew name, which would most likely have been Moshe ben Zechariah...), before finally evolving into the French-sounding Chagall. Defrosted 07:02, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Maybe he should have changed his name to Tchaikovsky.  :)  --  JackofOz (talk) 23:12, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

text: Malevich was born in Kyiv, but Kyiv at that time was part of the Russian empire. But still, in the English version of his page, he is a Ukrainian artist (according to MoMA as well). And it’s 100% correct. We must change the Chagall page and replace Russian with Belarusian. Marina Anderson-Zubkova (talk) 21:12, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  birth-place 

message: We must change the Chagall page and replace Russian with Belarusian. Malevich was born in Kyiv, but Kyiv at that time was part of the Russian empire. But still, in the English version of his page, he is a Ukrainian artist (according to MoMA as well). And it’s 100% correct. Marina Anderson-Zubkova (talk) 21:23, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality  

message: A convincing amount of evidence indicates that Marc Chagall was born on July 7th, not July 6th.  According to an article in the New York Times, Chagall himself celebrated his 90th birthday on July 7th, 1977: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/09/archives/happy-birthday-sung-to-chagall.html
Another NYT article also referred to July 7th as his birthday:
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/26/archives/chagall-at-90-is-a-growing-artist.html
A comprehensive biography also states that July 7th was Chagall's birthday:
Chagall: A Biography, by Jackie Wullschlager (2008).  His birth date should, I think, be corrected in this Wikipedia entry. Gallium31 (talk) 03:05, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chagall's birthday 

message: I have replaced the initial "Israel" with "Mandatory Palestine", but I can't with good conscience replace the other uses, as they contain paraphrases of what Chagall said. I think in some places "Eretz Yisrael" might be good, in others "Palestine", or "the Levant" are better. Still in other cases, I'd have to know what Chagall actually said.
But whatever it is replaced with, it is historically incorrect to talk about "Israel", without any qualifiers, before 1948. As this whole section takes place in 1931 or thereabouts, the use of "Israel" is wrong, and should be replaced. --91.64.59.91 (talk) 15:30, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the term "Israel" in section "The Bible illustrations"