[lit-ideas] Re: Tajtelbaum
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:11:02 +0100 (BST)
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From: "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
>Teitelbaum (טײטלבױם teytlboym, deriving from a Yiddish/Germanic word
meaning date palm) is a Jewish surname.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Alfred_Tarski.aspx
"Tarski was the son of Ignacy Tajtelbaum, a successful shopkeeper, and his
wife, Rose Prussak Tajtelbaum. (Around 1924 he changed his name from
Tajtelbaum to Tarski—to protect his as yet unborn children from
anti-Semitism.)"
R. Paul quotes from wiki:
Tarski, "a name they invented because it sounded more Polish, was simple
to spell and pronounce, and seemed unused.">
Is this the ground for Palma detouring into the surname and seeming to suggest
that using Tarski, his own choice of name, involves (vague) anti-semitism?
It's quite irrelevant to the philosophical issues, this detour. But Palma
really should have been on the case of anti-semitism much earlier, for example
when Tarski has been mentioned before or when others like Lakatos have been
mentioned.
Detour to Lakatos: the story goes that when a communist he was suspected of
harbouring 'incorrect thoughts' and was taken in for questioning by the Secret
Police. After three days of intensive interrogation, exhausted,
browbeaten,nerves frayed and almost at breaking point, the Secret Police could
take no more and released him.
D
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