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Master's Thesis in Mathematics

I don't understand how she would have helped her uncle discover and publish her uncle's master's thesis in 1937. She would have been seven years old at that time. 199.19.96.7 ( talk) 13:56, 25 June 2013 (UTC) reply

To answer the above question : That's when he wrote the thesis, (1937) it says 'later published'. 207.108.227.150 ( talk) 19:25, 6 April 2016 (UTC) reply

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Bruce Esrig ( talk) 20:45, 29 December 2017 (UTC) reply

Single Source objection has been remedied

After reviewing Help:Maintenance_template_removal

  • I would like to ask that the single source template be removed.
  • COI disclosure: I have a personal relationship to the subject through my mother. My mother was a close friend of the subject. Their mothers were also friends. I am in contact with one of the subject's children.
  • I decided to update the article to further honor the subject. Nevertheless, I have sought to be unbiased in my edits and in the implied prominence of the subject.
    • To the question of whether the additions give undue prominence to the subject: The subject was held in high regard in the publishing community as indicated here: [1]. This source could be added to the main page if desired.
  • To reflect the subject's work as an author, I have added a Works section based on entries in WorldCat (the library reference site).
    • Note that in the introduction to the Works section, I used personal knowledge to write the sentence "She maintained deep connections with the expatriate Yiddish literary community." However, that statement is easily verified through Internet sources. I gave a reference to the repository of papers of Chaim Potok which includes a folder of letters from Esther Hautzig. The personal knowledge is that I know that they had a correspondence. I also included a citation to an introduction she wrote for a history of Vilnius. It is also possible to find a New York Times obituary for the librarian at the YIVO (a Yiddish cultural organization) in which Esther Hautzig is cited, indicating her close relationship with that institution. But I didn't include that reference because it is indirect evidence.
    • I also used personal knowledge to divide the works into two main categories. This division highlights a distinction that I personally believe would have seemed appropriate to the subject.
  • Incidentally, the subject worked part time in a branch of the New York Public Library, a fact mentioned in the New York Times article about the closing of that branch. That citation doesn't seem significant enough to be included on the main page.

Bruce Esrig ( talk) 12:23, 18 January 2018 (UTC) reply