Talk:List of Canadian Jews

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[edit] Confirmations

Can anyone confirm whether Mark Achbar or Peter Wintonick are Jewish? (Reasons to suspect they probably are: Achbar is listed as Jewish at [1] and Wintonick served on the Film Advisory Committee at the 8th Annual Montreal Jewish Film Festival.) -Udzu 13:18, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Time to sort out the entries marked uncofirmed:

  • Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick: see comments above – marking confirmed.
  • Paulo Costanzo: can't find anything – will remove in a few days unless something crops up.
  • Alice Parizeau: Polish-born but, unless someone knows anything to the contrary, probably not Jewish. She was imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen as a Polish resistance member. There is no reference to her Jewishness anywhere online (outside of Wikipedia) – will ask User:YUL89YYZ who added her, then remove unless confirmed.
  • Mark Strand: see [2], [3] (though there is a possibility that Strand is only half-Jewish) – marking confirmed.

Comments? -Juko 11:06, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

While we're at it, does anyone know if Julia Levy, the microbiologist, is Jewish? Juko

[edit] Eric Berne

User:65.8.126.42 seems to think Eric Berne is not Jewish. Here are some pages that I have found indicating he is:

Please add any sites that indicate the opposite opinion. --YUL89YYZ 15:26, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

I've added "(Canadian-born)" to the Eric Berne entry. --YUL89YYZ 15:32, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

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Not that he's not Jewish, that he's not British-Canadian. I do not think that Louis Siminovitch is Jewish though, just incase you'd like to know.

[edit] Maureen Forrester

I'm not sure what the point of a list of Jewish Canadians is, but I've added Maureen Forrester who converted to Judaism. CMacMillan 22:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dave Barrett

Barrett did not merely have a Jewish father. He was fully Jewish and in fact was the only Jew so far to have served as a provincial premier. I looked in the Weinfeld article that was linked to suggest this and I see no mention of Barrett only being half-Jewish.

[edit] Title of this article

Shouldn't the title be "List of Prominent Canadian Jews" (or similar), rather than just "List of Canadian Jews"? With the current title, the article is either going to be very incomplete or extremely long.

Wanderer57 22:13, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree, the title of this article should be "Famous Canadian Jews" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.150.49.164 (talk) 19:25, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interlocker

Will someone please explain what an interlocker is? The term is used in this article. Thanks. Wanderer57 19:52, 17 September 2007 (UTC)