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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2008/04

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [DR-L] Re: Back - getting OT
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:26:45 -0400

<<<Let me add my 2 cents to this learned discussion. Felix Mendelssohn,=20
despite the fact that he was often referred to as "the Jew" by Wagner=20
and other anti-Semites of the day, was I believe a Lutheran - or at=20
least a Christian of some stripe or other - and not Jewish.>>>

I believe that Mendelssohn was born Jewish, but that his entire family
converted to Lutheranism in order to avoid being the target of some of
the anti-Semitism that was prevalent in much of Europe at that time.

Ed Lacy
University of Evansville

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