Talk:List of Canadian Jews
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[edit] Confirmations
Can anyone confirm whether Mark Achbar or Peter Wintonick are Jewish? (Reasons to suspect they probably are: Achbar is listed as Jewish at [1] and Wintonick served on the Film Advisory Committee at the 8th Annual Montreal Jewish Film Festival.) -Udzu 13:18, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Time to sort out the entries marked uncofirmed:
- Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick: see comments above – marking confirmed.
- Paulo Costanzo: can't find anything – will remove in a few days unless something crops up.
- Alice Parizeau: Polish-born but, unless someone knows anything to the contrary, probably not Jewish. She was imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen as a Polish resistance member. There is no reference to her Jewishness anywhere online (outside of Wikipedia) – will ask User:YUL89YYZ who added her, then remove unless confirmed.
- Mark Strand: see [2], [3] (though there is a possibility that Strand is only half-Jewish) – marking confirmed.
Comments? -Juko 11:06, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
While we're at it, does anyone know if Julia Levy, the microbiologist, is Jewish? Juko
[edit] Eric Berne
User:65.8.126.42 seems to think Eric Berne is not Jewish. Here are some pages that I have found indicating he is:
- JEWISH PSYCHOLOGISTS
- Can. J. Women Artists & Dr. Eric Berne
- Tim Wise and White Privilege: A Response
Please add any sites that indicate the opposite opinion. --YUL89YYZ 15:26, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
I've added "(Canadian-born)" to the Eric Berne entry. --YUL89YYZ 15:32, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
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Not that he's not Jewish, that he's not British-Canadian. I do not think that Louis Siminovitch is Jewish though, just incase you'd like to know.
[edit] Maureen Forrester
I'm not sure what the point of a list of Jewish Canadians is, but I've added Maureen Forrester who converted to Judaism. CMacMillan 22:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dave Barrett
Barrett did not merely have a Jewish father. He was fully Jewish and in fact was the only Jew so far to have served as a provincial premier. I looked in the Weinfeld article that was linked to suggest this and I see no mention of Barrett only being half-Jewish.
