Talk:Mordechai Schlein

Latest comment: 12 hours ago by The Blue Rider in topic "Red flags" with the credibility of this article

"Red flags" with the credibility of this article

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Very few Jews from eastern Belarus were deported to Auschwitz. The subject of this article was very young, bordering on implausibly so, when he is said to have been involved with the resistance. No scholarly sources are cited, instead you use a religious website which is not reliable for anything but possibly interpretations of Judaism and Jewish customs. (t · c) buidhe 20:48, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I've already added two other books as sources, he is not that well known but there are still some sources out there which I think are enough to stablish notability; obviously a jew person will have more jew sources and the reason why I used those two is because they are the most detailed I could find. I didn't find any scholary articles online other than a PhD dissertation. The Blue Rider   21:03, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Also one of the two sources is The Forward which seems a pretty well stablish and reputable source. The Blue Rider   21:07, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Already removed Aish.com which can be indeed unreliable. The Blue Rider   21:08, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I don't know if the story is true, but the lack of mention in scholarly sources (there are a lot about partisan war in Belarus) doesn't improve the credibility of the account. I don't know what primary accounts that the other sources are based on but if he really blew up a building in Ovruch killing 200 Germans as you assert here, there would be expected to be mentions in German and Ukrainian sources. (t · c) buidhe 21:23, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
The source that I removed said there were 200 Germans officers, I changed to many instead of 200. I haven't looked into the German language much, but I did saw some German books about him which I plan to download. The Blue Rider   21:27, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
True or not, there are quite some sources about him, some more detailed than others, but still sources. Whether to phrase this as folklore or as real might the actual question. The Blue Rider   21:28, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I also saw one source with a different spelling so I assume he might be known by different names depending on the language. The Blue Rider   21:30, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply