Frankists

Was the Brandeis among the Frankists who (apparently) converted to Catholicism? User:213.250.143.131 (talk) 05:21, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jesus Christ, what an obvious and plane insinuation of antisemitic conspiracy theory. What are you going to cite next, Protocols of the Elders of Zion? I'm sorry that he was so based that modern reactionaries, with their typical "poisoned root" approach, view him as the sinister font of all that is evil and wrong in the world. Of course the "poisoned roots" of reactionary thought, who existed at the time and who opposed him, would later, in their infinite wisdom, form the America First committee and run interference for Hitler. Clearly they are very good at spotting the actual enemies of the republic. Apologies for the "historicizing", we humans sometimes abandon our duty to forget. Markwater1917 (talk) 18:35, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can we clear this up, was he a Jew or was he a Frankist? To but clear, Frankists are not religious-Jews nor ethnic-Jews just as Christians are not Jew but a splinter sent who renounced Judaism. Only the racists of pre WWII Europe considered them Jews. Refael Ackermann (talk) 20:33, 2 February 2025 (EST)
@Refael Ackermann: You have been editing Wikipedia long enough to know that every question of this sort will come down to what reliable sources report on the matter. BD2412 T 03:07, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
10-4 @BD2412: That's the conclusion I came to... I could not find any reliable source that mentions this fact, and the source that was cited in the article is an offline book on the Frankist movement, not about Brandeis. tl;dr he wasn't a Fankists. It's just a badly sourced rumor. But I'd rather leave this section open here in case someone in the future comes up with an actual reliable source. Refael Ackermann (talk) 04:11, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There is this article, Russell G. Pearce, Adam B. Winer, and Emily Jenab, "A Challenge to Bleached Out Professional Identity: How Jewish was Justice Louis Brandeis?", 33 Touro L. Rev. 335 (2017), which substantively mentions Frankism in half a page worth of the 35 page article, stating at p. 349:

Jonathan Sarna notes that Brandeis' mother had a strong "distaste for formal religion," and... suggests that her aversion to institutionalized religion may have owed to the Frankist antinomian spirit in which she was raised, referring to the Jewish religious movement based on the messianic claims of Jacob Frank in the eighteenth century that championed the validity of Jewish ideals in place of Jewish law.

and at p. 353:

Marc Galanter... echoes Sarna's view and contends that Brandeis was devoted to an antinomian vision of idealistic reform, and not to Judaism. Galanter too refers to Brandeis' ancestors' ties to Frankism and posits that "[s]omething of this [ideology] filtered through to Louis Brandeis." Following in the spirit of his Frankist forebears, Brandeis framed his deeply felt "urge to reform, redeem, and perfect the world" in artificially Jewish terms...

The two individuals cited are among dozens of others cited in the paper who examine the Jewishness of Brandeis with no mention of Frankism. The mentions themselves focus on the subject's mother, rather than the subject directly, merely speculating on an influence passing to the subject. BD2412 T 04:21, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The Hebrew Wiki article mentions his maternal grandfather and great-grandfather were Frankist, but that subject's parents were liberal non-Religius. This reenforces my conclusion that religion played minimal (if any) role in subject's upbringing and adult life. He considered himself, and was considered by others as, a secular person and an "Ethnically Jewish". Not a Frankist. (aside; some Jewish ultra-ortodox consider Frankists and all Sabbateans as heretics worthy of shunning, so associating subject with Frankism might be part of an auto-antisemitic smear campaign)
I'll try and add some sourced WP:NPOV words about his ancestral connection to Frankism since it is quite unique with only several thousands followers across Europe and only several hundreds in Prague.[1] Refael Ackermann (talk) 14:29, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Good article

IMHO this article should be among the Wikipedia good articles. Debresser (talk) 17:53, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

First name pronunciation

The first name of Brandeis is often mispronounced. Scott Campbell, Archivist of the Brandeis and Harlan papers at the University of Louisville Law Library, refers to an article by Todd C. Peppers, A Justice by Any Other Name: the Case of Louis D. Brandeis, Volume 19, 2nd issue of The Supreme Court Historical Society Quarterly mentioning a conversation with Brandeis’s grandson Frank Gilbert. The latter is quoted as having said “It was pronounced ‘Lou-ee’ not ‘Lou-is’.” Perhaps the article should include a reference to https://brandeiswatch.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/how-to-pronounce-louis-brandeis/ as https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A1 does. Mcljlm (talk) 10:24, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ "The Bohemian Origins of Justice Louis Brandeis". Avotaynu. 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
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