Talk:List of North European Jews

message: The IP 65.10.47.107 edited the list of Swedish Jews, adding "Jewish father" on Oskar Klein, with the edit comment "Oskar Klein father was a rabbi, do some research". Writing "Jewish father" implies that the mother was not Jewish, making the note not only superfluous but misleading, and one cannot help wondering why the anonymous contributor did not add "Jewish father" in all cases where somebody has two Jewish parents. 
The same IP then removed Ernst Josephson and Erland Josephson from the list with the comment "Neither Josephson's are Jewish. Josephson is a common Christian name.". Josephson is actually neither a Christian nor a Jewish name per se, but these two individuals belong to a very well-known Swedish Jewish family, which can be found in any Swedish reference work, including the widely available Nationalencyklopedin. (In both cases, their Jewishness is common knowledge among educated Swedes, but the important point is that the fact is very easy to verify.) Uppland 10:20, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Swedish Jews

message: As far as I know (source: article in Israeli daily Ha'aretz) Gidon Kremer, despite his name, does not have Jewish origins. Neither does the article Gidon Kremer mention any. I would appreciate it if anyone could verify this assertion or refute it. RCSB 02:23, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Kremer's father was a Jewish Holocaust survivor . Also, Ben Mottelson is a naturalised Danish citizen and has lived in Denmark for over 50 years, which makes him 100% Danish in my book. Udzu 10:44, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gidon Kremer (& Ben Mottelson)

message: * Reuben Leon Kahn
: --Sheynhertzגעשׁ״ך 06:49, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the List? 

message: I have removed two names that were probably just added by anti-semites as "evidence" of the Jewish influence over the media. (There was some other crap as well.) One was a well-known Social Democratic journalist with a Jewish family background (her grandfather), but who is not Jewish herself an in fact a professing Lutheran who has studied to become a minister in the Church of Sweden. The other was a radio journalist who has a Jewish-sounding name, but whose Jewish background, if any, is uncertain. Despite being on radio, she is hardly that much of a public person in any case.
There are other names, which should be here but are missing (like the painter Hanna Hirsch-Pauli or medical researcher Jerzy Einhorn). But when anyone can change the page and add anti-semitic bullshit like what was there before my edits, I hesitate to do any constructive work here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Malmq (talk • contribs) 01:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't write with that tone. Maybe it was an honest mistake or even added with private information and true. The list lacks clarification of who qualifies to be in the list. Ethnic Jews or religious Jews.--Immunmotbluescreen (talk) 09:20, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:   Swedish list  

message: The Lithuanian list includes several Americans of Lithuanian Jewish descent, who are not Jewish themselves. Shouldn't they be removed from the list. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 12:02, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: ...who are not Lithuanian themselves, I meant of course. Sorry. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 14:51, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Lithuania

message: Is this really the same person the link goes to?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.208.162.83 (talk) 15:20, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Max Goldberg, Iceland 

message: I think the article needs to clarify the definition of the Jew in the list. Are we making a list of the ethnic Jews or the followers of Judaism? Sometimes they overlap, but sometimes they do not. For example a born ethnic Jew could convert to become atheist, should he then be removed from the list? How can we know the religious status of everyone and when (if ever) does a Jew assimilate to disqualify for this list?
What about a Jew born in Denmark that moves to America? Is he still a part of the list?
--Immunmotbluescreen (talk) 09:17, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnic Jews or religious Jews