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[edit] Jewish?
The only other place I've seen him listed as Jewish is jewatch.com. Is there a citation for that? Just because you're born in Lodz, it doesn't mean you're Jewish... then again, he might not even have been born in Lodz! D SCH 00:27, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, he is listed as an ethnic Jew all over the place. I'll add a footnote in a sec. Ahasuerus 01:21, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "very beautiful legend"
I changed the wording of this to simply "legend" because the legend has ideological content, such that I and many others won't really find it "beautiful". I'm open to some other wording, but "very beautiful" adds an explicitly religious/theist POV. 66.195.208.54 06:21, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Birthplace
This article seems to contain a contradiction: Was Yagoda born in Lodz, Poland, or in Nizhny Novgorod. Helix_pomatia, 2005-12-10.
- That's a good question. Most sources state that he was born in Nizhny Novgorod, but one insists on Rybinsk and suggests that Yagoda moved to Nizhny Novgorod as a youth. I'll change the article, thanks for noticing! Ahasuerus 20:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
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- The "demo-version" of Encyclopaedia Britannica states he was born in Lodz. But I wouldn't say I trust that source very much. Anyway, I think a citation would be useful here.
- I think it's a bit funny, that poor Yagoda was born in a different town in almost every Wikipedia-version where he has an article. According to this version (enwiki) he was born in Nizhny Novgorod, according to the Polish wiki, in Lodz, according to the Swedish wiki, in Lemberg (Lviv), and if I understood it correctly, the Russians voted for Rybinsk (I don't speak Russian)…
- --Adolar von Csobánka (Talk) 21:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "phallo-imitator"
What of the "phallo-imitator"? The article makes it sound as though it was standard for Soviet officials to possess such things. This sounds as though it might be a hoax, or at least the wording is very strange.
