Doublereed Archive - Posting 000018.txt from 2008/04

From: David Lurie <klingsor@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [DR-L] Re: Back - getting OT
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:31:06 -0400

Maybe you are right. But I also heard that it was his father who
converted to Lutheranism. So, I don't know for sure.

David

At 03:26 PM 4/2/2008, you wrote:
><<<Let me add my 2 cents to this learned discussion. Felix Mendelssohn,
>despite the fact that he was often referred to as "the Jew" by Wagner
>and other anti-Semites of the day, was I believe a Lutheran - or at
>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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