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NOTES
1. Jewish father, half-Jewish mother; see, e.g., Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, by Ray Monk (Penguin, New York and London, 1990, pp. 4-7).
2. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
3. See Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 10 (Keter, Jerusalem, 1972, p. 1287).
4. See http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_l.htm.
5. According to his profile in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century, edited by Roland Turner (St. James Press, 1988, p. 63), Benveniste was a former rabbinical student.
6. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
7. See A Certain People, by Charles E. Silberman (Summit Books, New York, 1985, pp. 247-248). Putnam has described himself as a "practicing Jew"; see http://www.pragmatism.org/dmap/putnam.doc.
8. Son of a Danish-Jewish mother, Karla Abrahamsen, and a German-Jewish step-father, Dr. Theodor Homburger. Prior to her marriage to Homburger, Erikson's mother was briefly married to a Danish Jew, Valdemar Isidor Salomonson. Erikson claimed, however, that his real biological father was an unknown, non-Jewish Dane. See http://www.multiculturalfamily.org/famousfamilies/erikson_family.shtml.
9. See The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography: Volume One, edited by Jacob Rader Marcus and Judith M. Daniels (Carlson Publishing, Brooklyn, NY, 1994, p. 25).
10. The Jewish ancestry of the author of Don Quixote has never been definitively established, but the growing consensus among scholars is summarized by Stephen Gilman in The Spain of Fernando de Rojas (Princeton University Press, 1972, p. 154) as follows: "But what they [the conversos] contributed to the world was nothing less than the possibility of the major literary genre of modern times: the novel. Cervantes and the men that provided him with this tradition ... were all, although certain scholars fight rearguard battles in individual cases, conversos." See also The Cervantes Project website: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/biography/new_english_cerv_bio.html#further_info.
11. See The Jewish Lists, by Martin Greenberg (Schocken, New York, 1979, p. 144).