On 6/1/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
The list is just as legitimate as any other list of two intersecting groups is (we no doubt have "List of French mathematicians" around somewhere, same idea). It's just the *descriptive note* at the top that makes it seem... not quite right.
No?
It's a consequence of the endless debates about these various lists of Jews that have been raging since the dawn of wikitime. It's to counter the criticism that "how can you incontrovertibly declare that so-and-so is Jewish?"