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I give up on sourcing. Every line of this entry is available in any of the in-text cites (NY State assembly, Congressional Record). The selected bibliography is sourced at any Library, of course including the Lib. Of Congress
Shlishke (talk) 02:16, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Any reason for not mentioning his Jewish ancestry? It seems substantial.--92.77.210.248 (talk) 10:19, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
See subject.
He's dead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shlishke (talk • contribs) 23:35, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
As I noted a few years ago, above. I, Shliske, am the main editor and watch-lister for this article. I am the son of the historian Randolph L. Braham, and know well the importance of accuracy in the writing of history.
Now I just can't find the damn template tag to remove it.
I've just reverted completely, basically, the article after an unannotated major revision. I understand the good intentions, but the lack of "respect" (for what that's worth) before making something as crucial as name change, by not bringing it up here, is as a scholarly (even Wiki-world level) matter not the best. The other "helpful" change of installing a reference is simply weird.
1. I know his middle name is "Lewis" because I have his naturalization papers.
2. The revert of the other change--moving the day-after NYTimes obit to the very first word of the article as a reference, because a: it makes no sense (wait, we need a cite to prove he's dead before continuing the piece? Why _this_ cite?) and b: organizing the entire wealth of supplemental material after the running text, batching the obits with the other outside commentary on his life ("external biography") makes sense. Shlishke (talk) 18:23, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
Shlishke (talk) 22:29, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Sheesh, I can't get to an edit page of the entire article, just the sections. Did something change?
The reason is this: The section "Awards" is the first full mention--with cite of pertinent ref--of "The Geographical Encyclopedia"--but is referenced previously in the Wiesel quote in the section above.
So by rights a more solid mention of the book should be there. Which then raises a bibliographic, stylistic problem (which is easily satisfied in a "see also" kind of thing in print, but I have no clue here: the appended citation is rightfully expected to that book, and page number, if we're going to get all scholarly. And then put that (good, long) review/essay ("The Saddest...") next to the book-as-awarded-thing.
Can someone either futz with that, or, simply, tell me how to edit the whole damn thing w/o saving a cut, a paste, a cut, etc.? Shlishke (talk) 17:24, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
As noted in article's first sentence Braham spent his academic career partly at the Grad School (with office and secretary and all), heading the institute he founded, mentoring grad students, etc., at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (as I copied from its wiki entry). In the published page, in the bio box/w picture, "Scientific research" is a header, followed by "institution." City College, yes, but as the article notes he left there in 1992, and the Grad School itself is proud to note his long career there (I don't feel like doing the math at the moment to figure when he moved there, using the institute founding year, and it's unnecessary anyway). I can't find that tiny subsection on the edit page for the life of me. Any help? Shlishke (talk) 19:47, 4 February 2021 (UTC)