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Talk:Immanuel Velikovsky (view source)
Revision as of 18:25, February 14, 2009
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:::I believe the category "[[:Category:Jewish_People|Jewish People]]", refers to "people who follow the Jewish religion", not necessarily whether he was an ''important'' Jew? One of Velikovsky's biographer's considers his Jewishness important enough to write an article "The Jewish Science of Immanuel Velikovsky", ''Aeon'' vol.2 No.6, 1991. Between 1947-1948, Velikovsky had published over 40 articles in the N.Y. Post editorial page, dealing with the Middle East and the new state of Israel.([http://www.varchive.org/obs/obspref.htm ref]) Velikovsky begun the ''Scripta Academica'' series "as a basis for a Hebrew Academy based in Jerusalem."([http://www.varchive.org/dy/israel.htm ref]) --[[User:Eric2009|Eric2009]] 08:11, 11 February 2009 (EST)
:::I believe the category "[[:Category:Jewish_People|Jewish People]]", refers to "people who follow the Jewish religion", not necessarily whether he was an ''important'' Jew? One of Velikovsky's biographer's considers his Jewishness important enough to write an article "The Jewish Science of Immanuel Velikovsky", ''Aeon'' vol.2 No.6, 1991. Between 1947-1948, Velikovsky had published over 40 articles in the N.Y. Post editorial page, dealing with the Middle East and the new state of Israel.([http://www.varchive.org/obs/obspref.htm ref]) Velikovsky begun the ''Scripta Academica'' series "as a basis for a Hebrew Academy based in Jerusalem."([http://www.varchive.org/dy/israel.htm ref]) --[[User:Eric2009|Eric2009]] 08:11, 11 February 2009 (EST)
::::I think "Jewish people" is a useful category only if the person played an important role in Jewish affairs. You make the case that he did so, so I agree w the category now. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 12:32, 14 February 2009 (EST)
::::I think "Jewish people" is a useful category only if the person played an important role in Jewish affairs. You make the case that he did so, so I agree w the category now. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 12:32, 14 February 2009 (EST)
:::::Thanks for the reconsideration, I'll update the category. I wonder whether there should be different categories for (a) just being Jewish (b) playing a role in Jewish affairs? --[[User:Eric2009|Eric2009]] 13:25, 14 February 2009 (EST)
I note that the category "[[:Category:Authors|authors]]" has been removed, and was wondering what the rationale for this is? After all, he was an author of 8 books, his first being a ''New York Times'' number one best seller for 9 weeks, and top ten best seller for 27 week, and initiating a "controversy" that lasted many years. ([http://www.velikovsky.info/Worlds_in_Collision_as_bestseller ref]) --[[User:Eric2009|Eric2009]] 13:25, 14 February 2009 (EST)