Talk:Franz Werfel
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[edit] Where does it suggest Werfel was an ethnic Czech?
Many lands are multi-ethnic lands. The territory of Poland in the 1920s was a land of Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Belarussians, Germans, and even Swedes and Roma. You cannot claim that because a person was born in an area that was part of one nation's territorial acquisitions, that person is of that nationality's ethnic dominance. It is pseudo-scientific and offensive to many ethnicities. Where does it suggest that Franz Werfel was ethnically Czech? The word Czech never in history was used as a blanket term for anyone born in Czech lands. It is a specific term referring to Slavic-speaking inhabitants of Bohemia and Moravia who identified as Czech. Werfel was by all standard double-checked references online an Austrian Bohemia (sometimes known as German-Bohemian). If anyone wishes to point out he is a Bohemian by birth, make a category that is sufficient for that. 141.211.251.69 22:47, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- There are plenty of references that describe Werfel as Czech; here are two from leading British national newspapers.
- The Guardian: Oct 30, 1999; Rory Carroll; p. 16: "the Czech poet Franz Werfel - a Jew."
- Daily Mail: Nov 6, 1999; Glenys Roberts; p. 42: "the anti-Nazi Czech writer Franz Werfel"
- --20.138.246.89 11:35, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
