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Title: | Lacks a factual basis | |||
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| Name: | Jewish Studies prof. | | |||
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| City: | State: | Canada | | ||
| The basic idea of questioning the definition of Jews as a people seems sound. This certainly wasn`t always formulated or understood in the same way. But this scholar, working outside his field, seems to be relying on inferior sources. For example, the notion that "there is no etymological connection between the German Jewish language of the Middle Ages and Yiddish" is counterfactual as anyone who knows old Yiddish texts or the history of Yiddish literature can testify. |
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