Talk:Esther Hautzig

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Bruce Esrig in topic Single Source objection has been remedied

Master's Thesis in Mathematics

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I don't understand how she would have helped her uncle discover and publish her uncle's master's thesis in 1937. She would have been seven years old at that time. 199.19.96.7 (talk) 13:56, 25 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

To answer the above question : That's when he wrote the thesis, (1937) it says 'later published'.207.108.227.150 (talk) 19:25, 6 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Bruce Esrig (talk) 20:45, 29 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Single Source objection has been remedied

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After reviewing Help:Maintenance_template_removal

  • I would like to ask that the single source template be removed.
  • COI disclosure: I have a personal relationship to the subject through my mother. My mother was a close friend of the subject. Their mothers were also friends. I am in contact with one of the subject's children.
  • I decided to update the article to further honor the subject. Nevertheless, I have sought to be unbiased in my edits and in the implied prominence of the subject.
    • To the question of whether the additions give undue prominence to the subject: The subject was held in high regard in the publishing community as indicated here: [1]. This source could be added to the main page if desired.
  • To reflect the subject's work as an author, I have added a Works section based on entries in WorldCat (the library reference site).
    • Note that in the introduction to the Works section, I used personal knowledge to write the sentence "She maintained deep connections with the expatriate Yiddish literary community." However, that statement is easily verified through Internet sources. I gave a reference to the repository of papers of Chaim Potok which includes a folder of letters from Esther Hautzig. The personal knowledge is that I know that they had a correspondence. I also included a citation to an introduction she wrote for a history of Vilnius. It is also possible to find a New York Times obituary for the librarian at the YIVO (a Yiddish cultural organization) in which Esther Hautzig is cited, indicating her close relationship with that institution. But I didn't include that reference because it is indirect evidence.
    • I also used personal knowledge to divide the works into two main categories. This division highlights a distinction that I personally believe would have seemed appropriate to the subject.
  • Incidentally, the subject worked part time in a branch of the New York Public Library, a fact mentioned in the New York Times article about the closing of that branch. That citation doesn't seem significant enough to be included on the main page.

Bruce Esrig (talk) 12:23, 18 January 2018 (UTC)Reply