Talk:Leo Baeck

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The article seems to be lacking in references to Baeck as a Jewish thinker. Please could someone rectify this?

95.147.190.104 (talk) 10:09, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Removed "conservative" from "conservative" Jewish theological semenary at breslau, as it is 1) Anachronistic, and 2) not its name, Conservatism started in USA with Solomon Shechter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.208.141 (talk) 19:19, 1 July 2010 (UTC) Leo Baeck was born in Lissa, Germany. Wikipedia UserProud Pomerania incorrectly changed it to Leszno,Poland [1][reply]

Please sign your edits. The change in the first line was accidental. I've corrected myself. I simply wanted to correct the bad style of the above-not-signed anonymous editior. ProudPomeranian 21:15, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lacking: Informations about relationship Leo Baeck/Viktor Frankl.

-- 88.72.8.195 07:57, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He is a male, and in 1880 he was seventeen years old. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.10.96.108 (talk) 17:14, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Baeck in fiction[edit]

Something to look for to include. Rabbi Baeck is mentioned in Margaret Wood's play The Day of Atonement, set in 1950s Germany. Dr Krause, who has been treating a Jewish family's daughter, is unmasked by a lynch mob led by the family's son as being a Dr Holz who conducted experiments on concentration camp inmates. In vain attempt to excuse himself he explains he became more sympathetic to the Jews having got to know Baeck and listen in on the latter's philosophy lectures, and then to be saved from roughing up on the camp's liberation by interceding for Kraus/Holz with the Soviet commander. Currently neither the play or its author have a wikipedia article. I am writing from memory of studying the play for English Lit in the 1970s.Cloptonson (talk) 10:47, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cloptonson Unfortunately, just being mentioned in a fictional work is usually WP:UNDUE to mention in a Wikipedia article (unless the work is really influential or the subject plays a central role in the work). (t · c) buidhe 10:49, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for prompt reply. I put the question as one accustomed to seeing portrayals of historical characters in fiction in a number of wikipedia biographies, usually under the heading 'Cultural references'. I do not know how widespread the work was known, but it must have been considered useful reading in British secondary schools like mine, with its themes of persecutions of Jews and issues of revenge or reconcilation. (My own senior English teacher commented 'We could do with a Baeck' to intervene in the Troubles then ongoing in N Ireland.)Cloptonson (talk) 10:59, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, these cultural references tend to get added to articles, but many of them should be axed. The play seems fairly obscure; Margaret Wood (writer) doesn't even have a wikipedia article! (t · c) buidhe 11:05, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

According to The One-Act Play Companion https://archive.org/details/oneactplaycompan0000walf/page/154/mode/2up she wrote over 100 plays. Perhaps User:buidhe there should be at least a stub - Margaret Wood (playwright) - using that entry, the British Library catalogue https://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/ which lists 44 plays and https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/apr/03/guardianobituaries3 as a basis. Mcljlm (talk) 20:04, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]