Talk:Maurice Herman Finkel

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Yiddish theater?

I pulled this under-referenced article out from material anonymously pasted into Moishe Finkel. The material about him as a theater architect all checks out, so this is clearly at least well-intentioned, and my be entirely correct.

As for the sentence about Yiddish theater, I'm not saying it's entirely wrong, and Cooper Union would have been smack in Yiddish theater territory at the time he attended, but a citation would be nice, and the details don't seem right. The chronology has him off to Detroit when Paul Robeson, alluded to in the article, would still have been a high school football star. Paul Muni would be the right generation, and did start out in Yiddish theater in NYC. The mention of Muni is the main reason I don't think this is confusion with Moishe Finkel: Muni was a child of six when Moishe Finkel died.

Citation? -- Jmabel | Talk 10:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]