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... that the opera Christopher Columbus was written by its Jewish composer in 1939 while he was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to flee persecution from
Nazi Germany?
Source: Crawford, Dorothy Lamb (2009). A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Émigrés and Exiles in Southern California.
Yale University Press. p. 19.
ISBN9780300155488.
Comment: Special occasion holding area request: It would be cool to have this run on either October 8, 2024 (the 85th anniversary of the opera premiere) or on
Columbus Day on October 14, 2024.
Created by
4meter4 (
talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 90 past nominations.
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
QPQ: Done.
Overall: @
4meter4: I would support the special occasion request, but per
WP:DYKSO those generally can't be made more than 6 weeks out without an exception at
WT:DYK. Otherwise, all looks good to me (AGF on the book source).
Bsoyka (t •
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17:13, 28 July 2024 (UTC)reply
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... that the opera Christopher Columbus was written by its Jewish composer in 1939 while he was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to flee persecution from
Nazi Germany?
Source: Crawford, Dorothy Lamb (2009). A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Émigrés and Exiles in Southern California.
Yale University Press. p. 19.
ISBN9780300155488.
Comment: Special occasion holding area request: It would be cool to have this run on either October 8, 2024 (the 85th anniversary of the opera premiere) or on
Columbus Day on October 14, 2024.
Created by
4meter4 (
talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 90 past nominations.
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
QPQ: Done.
Overall: @
4meter4: I would support the special occasion request, but per
WP:DYKSO those generally can't be made more than 6 weeks out without an exception at
WT:DYK. Otherwise, all looks good to me (AGF on the book source).
Bsoyka (t •
c •
g)
17:13, 28 July 2024 (UTC)reply
@
4meter4: I would support the special occasion request, but per
WP:DYKSO those generally can't be made more than 6 weeks out without an exception at
WT:DYK. Otherwise, all looks good to me (AGF on the book source).
Bsoyka (
t •
c •
g)
17:13, 28 July 2024 (UTC)